Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables, and maps
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the problem and the people
- 2 Between village and bush
- 3 Body and cosmos
- 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation
- 5 Male and female
- 6 Kin, clan, and connubium
- 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception and re-conception
- 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa
- 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands
- 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical process
- Appendixes
- 1 Village resources derived from bush resources
- 2 Ingestion and ingestibles
- 3 Categories of food
- 4 Work and nonwork skills
- 5 Categories of human dirt
- 6 The myth of Foikale and Oa Lope
- 7 The afinama myth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Village resources derived from bush resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables, and maps
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the problem and the people
- 2 Between village and bush
- 3 Body and cosmos
- 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation
- 5 Male and female
- 6 Kin, clan, and connubium
- 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception and re-conception
- 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa
- 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands
- 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical process
- Appendixes
- 1 Village resources derived from bush resources
- 2 Ingestion and ingestibles
- 3 Categories of food
- 4 Work and nonwork skills
- 5 Categories of human dirt
- 6 The myth of Foikale and Oa Lope
- 7 The afinama myth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
garden foods
meat of game animals
houses, platforms, and clubhouses
weapons
tools of bone, wood, tooth, steel, and stone
clothes (loincloths for men, grass or sago-leaf skirts for women)
arm- and legbands
bark belts
combs
string bags
water for cooking and washing
mats
barkcloth blankets and sleeping nets
nets for fishing and hunting
dancing drums
flutes
canoes, paddles, and rafts
firewood
areca nut, betel pepper, and lime
tobacco
vegetable dyes
ornaments and valuables of bone, shell, feather, and tooth
ingredients (fuka) for ritual charms
medicines (mulamula), etc.
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- Chapter
- Information
- Quadripartite StructuresCategories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture, pp. 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985