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This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift. Lipset analyses young men’s elusive expressions of desire in courtship narratives, marijuana discourse, and mobile phone use—in which generational tensions play out together with their disaffection from the state. He also borrows from Lacanian psychoanalysis in discussing how men’s dialogue of dual alienation appears in folk theater, in material substitutions—most notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boats—as well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.  .

Psychology. --- Ethnology. --- Cross-cultural psychology. --- Cross Cultural Psychology. --- Men's Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Murik (Papua New Guinean people) --- Ethnology --- Murik (Papua New Guinea people) --- Nor (Papua New Guinean people) --- Papuans --- Applied psychology. --- Men. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Human males --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- National characteristics

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This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift. Lipset analyses young men's elusive expressions of desire in courtship narratives, marijuana discourse, and mobile phone use-in which generational tensions play out together with their disaffection from the state. He also borrows from Lacanian psychoanalysis in discussing how men's dialogue of dual alienation appears in folk theater, in material substitutions-most notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boats-as well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.  .

Psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Higher education --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- etnologie --- psychologie --- toegepaste psychologie --- culturele antropologie --- gender --- interculturele communicatie --- Papua New Guinea --- Ethnopsychology. --- Sex. --- Ethnology. --- Cross-Cultural Psychology. --- Gender Studies. --- Sociocultural Anthropology.

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"In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran - a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian or patron to those under its aegis as they made their way through life. To Melanesian scholarship, the cultural and psychological anthropologist, Donald F. Tuzin, was something of a Tambaran, a figure whose brilliant and fine-grained ethnographic project in the Arapesh village of IIaita was immensely influential within and beyond New Guinea anthropology. Tuzin died in 2007, at the age of 61. In his memory, the editors of this collection commissioned a set of original and thought provoking essays from eminent and accomplished anthropologists who knew and were influenced by his work. They are echoes of the Tambaran. The anthology begins with a biographical sketch of Tuzin's life and scholarship. It is divided into four sections, each of which focuses loosely around one of his preoccupations. The first concerns warfare history, the male cult and changing masculinity, all in Melanesia. The second addresses the relationship between actor and structure. Here, the ethnographic focus momentarily shifts to the Caribbean before turning back to Papua new Guinea in essays that examine uncanny phenomena, narratives about childhood and messianic promises. The third part goes on to offer comparative and psychoanalytic perspectives on the subject in Fiji, Bali, the Amazon as well as Melanesia. Appropriately, the last section concludes with essays on Tuzin's fieldwork style and his distinctive authorial voice"--Publisher's website.

Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Ethnologists. --- Ethnology --- Essays. --- Tuzin, Donald F. --- Collected papers (Anthologies) --- Papers, Collected (Anthologies) --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Tuzin, Donald --- Prose literature --- Festschriften --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ethnographers --- Anthropologists --- Asia --- Melanesia. --- Sepik (region)

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"Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology"--

Knots and splices --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolic aspects --- Social aspects

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Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea,

Vehicles --- Transportation --- Material culture --- Social aspects --- Case studies. --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Economic aspects --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade