Kinship in the Admiralty Islands / Margaret Mead ; with a new introduction by Jeanne Guillemin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manus (Papua New Guinean people)--Kinship.

Manus (Papua New Guinean people).

Manus (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.

Kinship--Papua New Guinea--Admiralty Islands.

Kinship.

Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.

Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea).

Papua New Guinea--Admiralty Islands.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

The Manus Tribe 1

Sketch of Manus Culture 1

The Manus Tribe 4

The Manus Village 12

Rank 16

Privileges of peri lapan 16

The Gens 18

The Kinship System 30

The kinship terminology 30

Ceremonial functions of relatives 38

Summary of marriage rules 40

Structural emphases 41

Kinship within the gens 48

Kinship Behavior 52

Manus manners relevant to avoidance rules 52

The prescribed marriage and kinship behavior 54

Characteristic behavior types 60

Cross-Cousin Jesting 62

Respect Behavior 66

Avoidance Behavior 67

Use of personal pronouns in affinal relationships 68

Use of personal names 70

Other aspects of avoidance behavior 77

Avoidance situations which are not functions of kinship 84

Summary of avoidance relationships 85

Husband and Wife 85

The Growing Child and the Kinship Categories 86

Effective Inter-Relationships in Adult Life 94

Brother and sister 94

Husband and wife 100

Brother and brother 104

Brothers-in-law 108

Cross-cousins 113

Sister to sister

piloan 115

Sisters-in-law

pinkaiyon 115

Female cross-cousins

pinpolapol 118

Co-wives

palu 118

Trade friendships 119

Religious Ramifications of the Kinship System 120

Justification of Ensuing Comparisons 122

Ceremonial Plunder 125

Inheritance 126

Contravention of the Kinship System 127

Implications of the affinal exchange system 127

Adoption 131

The modification of the kinship terminology 133

Illustrative cases 135

Analysis of the gens lo 142

Notes on Other Admiralty Island Systems 150

Conditions of Collection 150

The Balowan Kinship System 150

Consanguinity 151

Affinal terms 151

The expression of seniority 152

The Lou System 154

Terms of consanguinity 154

Analysis of cross-cousin terms 155

Terms of affinity 155

Consanguineous terms used in affinal relations 155

Notes on the social organization 155

The Ario Usiai Kinship System 157

Terms of affinity 158

Consanguineous terms used in affinal relationships 158

Analysis of cross-cousin terms 158

The Pak System 159

Terms of consanguinity 160

Analysis of cross-cousin terms 161

Affinal terms 161

The Bipi System 162

Terms of consanguinity 162

Affinal terms 162

Linguistic Aspect of the Foregoing Terminologies 163

Concluding Statement 165

Text Figures

1. Map of the Admiralty Islands 6

2. Diagram of the Village of Peri showing House Ownership, Gentile Membership, and Residence 23

3. Diagram of the Village of Peri as its Inhabitants conceptualize the Localization of Gentes within the Village 23

4. Diagrammatic Representation of a Matankor Village on the Island of Lou, showing Formal Arrangement of House Sites, Gentile Men's Houses, and Gentile Dancing Poles 24

5. Diagrammatic Representation of Crow and Omaha Types of Kinship System 31

6. Diagram showing Dominant and Submerged Descent Affiliations 41

7. Diagram illustrating the Dependence of patandrusum Relationships upon Residence 43.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0765807645

OCLC:

45556197