She speaks her anger : myths and conversations of Gimi women : a psychological ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea / Gillian Gillison.
Gillison, Gillian, author.
2020
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Title She speaks her anger : myths and conversations of Gimi women : a psychological ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea / Gillian Gillison.
Author Gillison, Gillian, author.
ISBN 9783030493523 (electronic book)
3030493520 (electronic book)
9783030493516
3030493512
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49352-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-49352-3 doi
Call Number HQ1866.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.48/89912
Summary Taking a novel approach that adapts Freuds theory of the Primal Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic data on the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on womens lives, myths, and rituals. Womens and mens separate myths and rites may be read as a cycle of blame about which sex caused the ills of human existence and is still at fault. However, the author demonstrates that in public rites of exchange in which both sexes participate, men appropriate and subvert womens usages as a ritual strategy to undo motherhood and confiscate children at puberty. In doing so, she reveals how Gimi women both rebel against the male-dominated social order and express understanding of why they also acquiesce. The result of decades of fieldwork, writing and reflection, this book offers an analysis of Gimi womens complex understanding of their situation and presents a nuanced picture of women in a society dominated by men. It represents an important contribution to New Guinea ethnography that will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, gender studies, and cultural, social and psychoanalytic anthropology. Gillian Gillison is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 21, 2021).
Series Culture, mind, and society.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Daily Life in an Eastern Highlands Village
Chapter 3. Portrait of Karapmene
Chapter 4. Totem and Taboo in the New Guinea Highlands: The Collusion of Sisters and Brothers
Chapter 5. "Eating the Head of the Child" : Ritual Exchange as Remedy for Crimes of the Mythic Past
Chapter 6. The Problem with Women
Chapter 7. The Mothers Crime and the Cycle of Blame
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Totem and Taboo Revisited.

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