Living kinship in the Pacific / edited by Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels.

Other author Toren, Christina, 1947-
Other author Pauwels, Simonne.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Descriptionviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesPacific perspectives ; Volume 4
Contents Kinship in the Pacific as knowledge that counts / Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels -- The mutual implication of kinship and chiefship in Fiji / Unaisi Nabobo-Baba -- Pigs for money : kinship and the monetisation of exchange among the Truku / Ching-Hsiu Lin -- Fijian kinship : exchange and migration / Jara Hulkenberg -- Gendered sides and ritual moieties : Tokelau kinship as social practice / Ingjerd Hoem -- Tongan kinship terminology and social stratification / Svenja Volkel -- 'I suffered when my sister gave birth' : transformations of the brother/sister bond -- Among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea / Pascale Bonnemare -- The Vasu position and the sister's mana : the case of Lau (Fiji) / Simonne Pauwels -- Sister or wife?, you've got to choose : a solution to the puzzle of village exogamy in Samoa / Serge Tcherkézoff -- The sister's return : the brother-sister relationship, the Tongan fahu and the unfolding of kinship in Polynesia / Franìoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- How would we have got here if our paternal grandmother had not existed? : relations of locality, blood, life and name in Nasau (Fiji) / Franìoise Cayrol -- How ritual articulates kinship / Christina Toren.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2014033533
ISBN9781782385776 (hardback)

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