What Gifts Engender: Social Relations and Politics in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea

Ethnohistory ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Deborah Gewertz ◽  
Rena Lederman
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Guinea

scholarly journals ET VILDNIS AF TABUER: Jagten på en kulinarisk struktur

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Liep
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Asymmetric Structure ◽  
Lactating Women ◽  
Food Taboos ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
The Universe

John Liep: A Wilderness of Taboos: The Quest for a Culinary Structure Recent anthropological research in Melanesia has focused on the construction of the person, theories of conception and procreation, and flows of substances through social relations and persons. There will often be a correspondence between substances such as sperm and biood, bodily parts such as bone and flesh, and contrasting foods that are gendered. An asymmetric constitution of the person and a clear structuration of food prestations between affinal sides may exist. A study of these themes on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea yielded frustrating results. No clear idea of contrasting, gendered body aspects was found. Further, a large number of food taboos for menstruating, pregnant and lactating women was distributed in clusters that were amenable to various logics of interpretation without any total structural logic appearing. This negative result is explained by the absence of any sustained practice of asymmetric marriage and corresponding complementary prestations between affines, which would reproduce an ordering asymmetric structure of the person and of the universe of foods.

What Gifts Engender: Social Relations and Politics in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea.

1988 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Robert Tonkinson ◽  
Rena Lederman
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Guinea

scholarly journals ‘Clan’ and ‘Family’: Transformations of Sociality among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea

Histories ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Bettina Beer
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Companionate Marriage ◽  
Social Units

Changes in what anthropologists understand “clan” to refer to, and the social relations that many sociologists think of as constituting a “nuclear family” are at the centre of this article. It is based on ethnography among Wampar speakers in north-eastern Papua New Guinea (PNG). Among the Wampar, different, sometimes conflicting, transitions relevant to the emergence of the family as an accentuated social entity can be observed; yet all are a result of Christianisation and the local effects of capitalism. Nominally patrilineal clans (sagaseg), after a period when they seemed to have a somewhat diminished social significance, are again crucial social units: a result of the government’s requirement that statutory Incorporated Land Groups (ILGs) form the sole legal basis of compensation for land use. At the same time, there has been an increasing emphasis on the nuclear family, which, along with the aspiration for modern lifestyles (and their associated consumption patterns) and education for children, has reconfigured the gendered division of labour. Ideals of companionate marriage and values specific to the nuclear family have become much more critical to social practices. In some families, traditional notions of descent have lost importance to such an extent that some young people are no longer aware of their sagaseg membership. Wampar men and women discuss these conflicting tendencies and argue about the different values that ground them. Which argument prevails often depends on the specific position of the person confronting them.

Persons and Address Terms in Melanesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-205
Author(s):  
Masahiko Nose
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Creole Languages ◽  
Verb Inflections ◽  
Address Terms

This chapter deals with vocative and address terms of the several Melanesian languages and tries to investigate the grammatical and sociolinguistic characteristics of them. This study is a contrastive study of the six languages which are spoken in Papua New Guinea (Amele, Bel, and Tok Pisin) and Vanuatu (South Efate, Nguna, and Bislama). This study tries to clarify the characteristics of their lexicon (mainly kinship and address terms) and usages of personal pronouns and their verb inflections. Generally, the sample languages are rich in usages of these terms (kinship, personal pronouns, vocatives) whereas creole languages have limited usages and borrowed from English lexicon. Finally, this study claims that there are several rules of defining social relations and their grammatical forms.

What Gifts Engender: Social Relations and Politics in Mendi, Highland Papua New Guinea.

Man ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 759
Author(s):  
Chris Gregory ◽  
Rena Lederman
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Guinea

scholarly journals Applying Kabeer's Social Relations Approach to  Village Health Volunteers in Rural Papua New  Guinea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ruth Heather
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Maternal Death ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Village Health Volunteers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Village Health

<p>In this thesis I explore the effectiveness and sustainability of the Village Health Volunteer system within the East Sepik Women and Children's Health Project (ESWCHP), Papua New Guinea. The ESWCHP is a well-established project that provides a health infrastructure for primary health care services in rural areas of the East Sepik Province. The ESWCHP supports Church Health Services, and village women who volunteer (Village Health Volunteers) to provide primary care in rural village settings. In 2006, I undertook research to assess the impact of the ESWCHP. The assessment showed that rural people were very supportive of the Project and that it had made a significant, positive difference to health in rural villages. There was however, an overwhelming response to the research from Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) with requests for a greater level of support from rural people and the ESWCHP (in terms of training, payment, and status) and greater consistency of medical supplies. In this qualitative thesis research, I revisited the 2006 data using a combined theoretical frame of gender and development, participatory development and Sen's capability approach. I developed a detailed method based on Kabeer's Social Relations Approach (1994) to guide the process of interpretation, analysis and representation of memories, notes, and data. Through the analysis of social relations, I examined questions concerning the effectiveness of the VHV system in the face of escalating maternal death rates and epidemic levels of HIV/AIDs, and its sustainability. The analysis showed that the ESWCHP was facing compounding gender inequalities that put sustainability of the VHV system at risk. The analysis also showed that on the basis of key health indicators, the ESWCHP health infrastructure with its current heavy reliance on VHVs was neither successful nor effective. Research is urgently needed to identify a sustainable and effective model of rural health care to address the rapidly escalating maternal death and HIV rates of rural people in PNG.</p>

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria C. Stead
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Ways Of Being

In Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste there are ways of being and belonging—customary and modern—that are fundamentally different but nonetheless intertwined in dynamic entanglements. These entanglements are being catalyzed by processes of globalization, state- and nation-building, and development. Both Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste are countries where customary forms of connection to land are central to lives, cultures, and identities. Conceptually, the chapter maps key trajectories in scholarly treatments of custom and modernity in anthropology and related disciplines, including recent scholarship on “multiple modernities.” It proposes a theorization of custom and modernity as ontologically distinct forms of social relations that cut across the boundaries of delimited social groups and are drawn into dynamic and shifting configurations. It is in this entangled multiplicity that we can best see the complexity and flux of global processes of social change.

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