Living Kinship in the Pacific

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-577-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that counts.” It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, contributors share an understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical links provide for close and useful comparison. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toren, Christina

Pauwels, Simonne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Kinship in the Pacific as Knowledge that Counts

Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels

Chapter 1. The Mutual Implication of Kinship and Chiefship in Fiji

Unaisi Nabobo-Baba

Chapter 2. Pigs for Money: Kinship and the Monetisation of Exchange among the Truku

Ching-Hsiu Lin

Chapter 3. Fijian Kinship: Exchange and Migration

Jara Hulkenberg

Chapter 4. Gendered Sides and Ritual Moieties: Tokelau Kinship as Social Practice

Ingjerd Hoëm

Chapter 5. Tongan Kinship Terminology and Social Stratification

Svenja Völkel

Chapter 6. ‘I suffered when my sister gave birth.’ Transformations of the Brother–Sister Bond Among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea

Pascale Bonnemère

Chapter 7. The Vasu Position and the Sister’s Mana. The Case of Lau (Fiji)

Simonne Pauwels

Chapter 8. Sister or Wife? You’ve Got to Choose. A Solution to the Puzzle of Village Exogamy in Samoa

Serge Tcherkézoff

Chapter 9. The Sister’s Return. The Brother-Sister Relationship, the Tongan Fahu and the Unfolding of Kinship in Polynesia

Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon

Chapter 10. How Would We Have Got Here if our Paternal Grandmother Had Not Existed? Relations of Locality, Blood, Life and Name in Nasau (Fiji)

Françoise Cayrol

Chapter 11. How ritual articulates kinship

Christina Toren

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Toren, Christina
Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and founding Director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her works include Mind, Materiality and History (1999) and The Challenge of Epistemology (co-edited with João de Pina-Cabral, 2012).

Pauwels, Simonne
Simonne Pauwels is a Researcher at CNRS and the adjunct Director of CREDO. Before working in Fiji, she conducted research in Eastern Indonesia for many years and, besides a number of articles, has written Metanleru, un voilier prédateur: Renommée et fertilité dans l'île de Selaru (2009) and D'un nom à l'autre en Asie du Sud-Est, Approches ethnologiques (co-edited with Josiane Massard-Vincent, 1999).

Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and founding Director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her works include Mind, Materiality and History (1999) and The Challenge of Epistemology (co-edited with João de Pina-Cabral, 2012).