Machine generated contents note: List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs ix
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on the Text xv
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
The Rai Coast 1
Chapter 1: Process and Kinship 21
Kinship, Process, and Creativity 22
Cognation and Flexibility 26
An Alternative to the Genealogical Model 29
The Palem 31
Chapter 2: Residence History and Palem 33
Hamlets Past and Present 33
Hamlets as Social Groups 41
The Labours of Lawrence 49
Complexity 52
Chapter 3: Marrying Sisters 57
Defining Relationships 57
Myths and Explanations 75
Chapter 4: Gardens, Land, and Growth 91
Origin Points 92
Gendered Productivity: The Tambaran 93
Households and Gardens 100
Gardening, not 'Production' 101
Gardens, Land, and Substance 114
Male Continuity, Female Movement 118
Chapter 5: Birth, Emergence, and Exchange 127
The Transactions Between Affinal Kin Focused on Children 128
Mother's Brothers in the Anthropological Literature 143
Affinal Payments and Lineality in Reite 145
Visibility and Recognition 151
Chapter 6: Spirit, Flesh, and Bone 159
The Palem as a Body 159
Performing Places. People and Spirits as Land Made Mobile 177
Chapter 7: Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception 193
The Concept of Landscape in Anthropology 196
Hearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities 201
Landscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld 206
Chapter 8: Creative Land 211
Land, Place, and Person 211
Simple Principles, Complex Process 215
Creativity 216
Glossary 219
References 221
Index 229.