Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New GuineaUniversity of Michigan Press, 2001 - 243 sidor Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery analyzes the relationship between masculinity and motherhood in an Eastern Iatmul village along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It focuses on a metaphorical dialogue between two countervailing images of the body, dubbed by literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin as the "moral" and the "grotesque." Eastern Iatmul men in Tambunum village idealize an image of motherhood that is nurturing, sheltering, cleansing, fertile, and chaste--in a word, moral. But men also fear an equally compelling image of motherhood that is defiling, dangerous, orificial, aggressive, and carnal--hence, grotesque. Masculinity in Tambunum is a rejoinder both subtle and strident, both muted and impassioned, to these contrary, embodied images of motherhood. Throughout this work, Eric Silverman details the dialogics of mothering and manhood throughout Eastern Iatmul culture, including in his analysis cosmology and myth; food- and childraising; architecture and canoes; ethnophysiology and sexuality; shame and hygiene; marriage and kinship; and perhaps most significantly, a ceremonial locus classicus in anthropology: the famous Iatmul naven rite. This book provides the first sustained examination of naven since Bateson, presenting new data and interpretations that are based entirely on original, first-hand ethnographic research. The sustained engagement with anthropological and psychoanalytic theory coupled with a refreshing examination of a famous and still-enigmatic ritual is sure to make multiple contributions to pressing debates in contemporary anthropology and social theory. Eric Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, DePauw University. |
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... analyze the relationship between masculinity and motherhood by focusing on two countervailing images of the body that the great literary theo- rist Mikhail Bakhtin dubbed the " moral " and the 1: Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral.
... analyze the relationship between masculinity and motherhood by focusing on two countervailing images of the body that the great literary theo- rist Mikhail Bakhtin dubbed the " moral " and the 1: Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral.
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... body . In so doing , I anchor the cultural pervasiveness of maternal representations , especially in the imagination of men , to the nostalgia of infancy , the complexity of oedipal desire , and what Margaret Mead ( 1949 ) aptly termed ...
... body . In so doing , I anchor the cultural pervasiveness of maternal representations , especially in the imagination of men , to the nostalgia of infancy , the complexity of oedipal desire , and what Margaret Mead ( 1949 ) aptly termed ...
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... body have prevailed in Western thought . The individual body is natural , appetitive , orificial , unkempt , and transgressive . By contrast , the social body is cultural , inhibited , bounded , clean , and obedient . As a symbol for ...
... body have prevailed in Western thought . The individual body is natural , appetitive , orificial , unkempt , and transgressive . By contrast , the social body is cultural , inhibited , bounded , clean , and obedient . As a symbol for ...
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... body , much as Durkheim and Hobbes theorized , symbolizes the official view of social order . This body is thoughtful , somber , restrained , and sanitized . Its profile is unambiguously defined . It shuns eros . It refuses to open ...
... body , much as Durkheim and Hobbes theorized , symbolizes the official view of social order . This body is thoughtful , somber , restrained , and sanitized . Its profile is unambiguously defined . It shuns eros . It refuses to open ...
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... body symbols in this region are rarely stable , unitary , or limited to a single context . Indeed , epistemic gaps are commonplace in Melanesian cosmologies . Discursive strategies , as Weiner ( 1995a , 9 ) writes , tend " more to cut ...
... body symbols in this region are rarely stable , unitary , or limited to a single context . Indeed , epistemic gaps are commonplace in Melanesian cosmologies . Discursive strategies , as Weiner ( 1995a , 9 ) writes , tend " more to cut ...
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Food and Floods | 15 |
Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders | 27 |
Human Bodies | 47 |
The Architectural Grotesque | 64 |
A Symbolic Forest of Kin | 83 |
Oedipus in the Sepik | 100 |
The Shame of Masculinity | 116 |
Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven | 133 |
Conclusion Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity | 159 |
Masculinity beyond the Sepik | 174 |
Notes | 179 |
References | 203 |
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Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul ... Eric Kline Silverman Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2001 |
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