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
4 - Work and nonwork skills
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- 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
Work skills
garden clearing, burning, planting, weeding, harvesting
carrying
chopping firewood
construction of houses, platforms, clubhouses
canoe manufacture
fencing
grass cutting
rubbish removal
digging
butchering
wood carving
boiling food
bark pounding
tool manufacture (axes, adzes, knives, weapons, drills, pounders, etc.)
valuable manufacture (shell armbands, feather ornaments, strings of dogs' teeth, strings of cowrie shells, etc.)
fire making
Nonwork skills
hunting with dogs, spear, shotgun, bow and arrow, nets
fishing with spear, bow and arrow, hook and line, nets
ritual for hunting, fishing, gardening, curing, peace sorcery, war sorcery, courting, mefu, pig husbandry
drum making
dancing
drumming
singing
roasting food
chewing areca and betel
childbirth
marriage-compensation exchange
mortuary-feast exchange
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- Quadripartite StructuresCategories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture, pp. 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985