Ӧmie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature

By Marta Rohatynskyj

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts of kinship studies to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents. The author argues that this practice is associated with a totemic/animistic ontology and has currency in a particular type of Melanesian society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800736606
• ISBN13: 9781800736603
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"