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Ethnology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie

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The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.

Ethnology --- New Guinea --- Social life and customs --- Melanesians --- Sexual behavior --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Sexual behavior. --- Social life and customs. --- Kanake (New Guinea people) --- Pacific Islanders --- Malay Archipelago --- Melanesia

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Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) --- Social change --- Acculturation --- Gebusi (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Changement social --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Social conditions. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Social life and customs. --- Conditions sociales. --- Acculturation. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Papua New Guinea

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Political sociology --- Politics