Between Culture and Fantasy

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New Guinea Highlands Mythology

Szerző: Gillian Gillison

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Chicago Press

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The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin o...

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Szerző

Gillian Gillison

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1993

oldal

416

EAN

9780226293806

Enbook ID

04545147

Kiadó

University of Chicago Press

Súly

702

Méretek

167 x 237 x 30

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The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms. Gillison shows how the themes expressed in Gimi myths--especially sexual hostility and an obsession with menstrual blood--are dramatized in the elaborate public rituals that accompany marriage, death, and other life crises. The separate myths of Gimi women and men seem to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. The sexes cast blame in the veiled imagery of myth and then play out their debate in joint rituals, cooperating in shows of conflict and resolution that leave men undefeated and accord women the greater blame for misfortune.

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