„'Naven' is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by the Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea. The ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the 'naven' ceremony, transvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The 'naven' serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field antropology ever wtitten.
Naven was first published in 1936, and it subsequently became famous and out of print. This second edition is therefore doubly welcome. It is also triply so because Bateson has added a new final chapter which clarifies certain matters in the first edition and links his thinking in 1936 with his current pioneering work in "psychiatric anthropology " and communications theory.”
TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNY (történelem nélkül) / Antropológia kategória termékei
Gregory Bateson: Naven. A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points of View
Kiadás:
Stanford, 1958
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Nyelv:
Angol
Terjedelem:
312 p., 28 tbl.
Kötésmód:
papír