The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World
ISBN: 9780078034923 | 0078034922
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 1/31/2012
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Written specifically for students, this ethnography provides an engaging, real-life account of the transition from a traditional to a modern culture. It uses vibrant, poignant stories and examples to connect developments among Gebusi to topics widely discussed in anthropology courses, including comparative aspect of subsistence, kinship, politics, religion, gender, ethnicity, nationalism, and applied anthropology. When first studied by Bruce Knauft, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea conducted ritual dances and spirit séances, practiced alterna... MORE
PART ONE: 1980–82
CHAPTER 1: Friends in the Forest
Broader Connections: Fieldwork and Culture
CHAPTER 2: Rhythms of Survival
Broader Connections: Subsistence, Health, and Language
CHAPTER 3: Lives of Death
Broader Connections: Life Stories and “Doing Ethnography”
CHAPTER 4: Getting Along with Kin and Killers
Broader Connections: Kinship, Marriage, and Social Organization
CHAPTER 5: Spirits, Sex, and Celebration
Broader Connections: S... MORE
CHAPTER 6: Ultimate Splendor
Broader Connections: Ritual Initiation and Life-Cycle Transitions
PART TWO: 1998
CHAPTER 7: Time for Change: Yuway’s Sacred Decision
Broader Connections: Sociocultural and Religious Change
CHAPTER 8: Pennies and Peanuts, Rugby and Radios
Broader Connections: Markets, Development, and Modern Aspirations
CHAPTER 9: Mysterious Romance, Marital Choice
Broader Connections: Youth and Modernity, “Companionate” Marriage
CHAPTER 10: Sayu’s Dance and After
Broader Connections: Nationhood, Ethnicity, and Folklore
PART THREE: THREE DECADES OF CULTURAL CHANGE
CHAPTER 11: Revival 2008
Broader Connections: Cultural Survival, Economic Decline, and the Reinvention of Traditions
CHAPTER 12: 2012 and Beyond
Broader Connections: Globalization, Political Economy, and Engaged AnthropologyFarewell
List of Persons
Index
Yuway of the Gebusi Wapksiayk clan was born about 1961. Yuway was Bruce Knauft's friend and language helper during his first fieldwork. Bruce helped support his initiation into adulthood along with his courtship and marriage. The father of five children, Yuway became a Christian during the 1990s and remained one of Bruce's closest Gebusi friends. He died of an illness in June 2009 at about 48 years of age. This third edition of The Gebusi is dedicated to his memory.
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