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Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery analyzes the relationship between masculinity and motherhood in an Eastern Iatmul village along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It focuses on a metaphorical dialogue between two countervailing images of the body, dubbed by literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin as the moral and the grotesque. Eastern Iatmul men in Tambunum village idealize an image of motherhood that is nurturing, sheltering, cleansing, fertile, and chaste--in a word, moral. But men also fear an equally compelling image of motherhood that is defiling, dangerous, orificial, aggressive, and carnal--hence, grotesque. Masculinity in Tambunum is a rejoinder both subtle and strident, both muted and impassioned, to these contrary, embodied images of motherhood. Throughout this work, Eric Silverman details the dialogics of mothering and manhood throughout Eastern Iatmul culture, including in his analysis cosmology and myth; food- and childraising; architecture and canoes; ethnophysiology and sexuality; shame and hygiene; marriage and kinship; and perhaps most significantly, a ceremonial locus classicus in anthropology: the famous Iatmul naven rite. This book provides the first sustained examination of naven since Bateson, presenting new data and interpretations that are based entirely on original, first-hand ethnographic research. The sustained engagement with anthropological and psychoanalytic theory coupled with a refreshing examination of a famous and still-enigmatic ritual is sure to make multiple contributions to pressing debates in contemporary anthropology and social theory. Eric Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, DePauw University.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
ISBN-100472067575
ISBN-139780472067572
eBay Product ID (ePID)1851365
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMasculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery : Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea
Publication Year2001
SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Women's Studies, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorEric K Line Silverman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2001-000383
Dewey Edition21
Target AudienceScholarly & Professional
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306/.089/9912
Lc Classification NumberDu740.42.S57 2001
Table of Content
rhp\ \1rrh: Contents\ \1h\ Contents \xt\ \comp: add page nos. on proof\ List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note to Readers Chapter 1. Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral Part One: Cosmic Masculinity Chapter 2. Food and Floods Chapter 3. Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders Chapter 4. Human Bodies Chapter 5. The Architectural Grotesque Part Two: Social Masculinity Chapter 6. A Symbolic Forest of Kin Chapter 7. Oedipus in the Sepik Chapter 8. The Shame of Masculinity Part Three: Ritual Masculinity Chapter 9. Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven Chapter 10. Conclusion: Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity Epilogue: Masculinity Beyond the Sepik Notes References Index o come\
rhp\ \1rrh: Illustrations\ \1h\ Illustrations \xt\ \comp: add page nos. to proof\ Map 1. Sepik region of Papua New Guinea \1s\ Figures 1. Processing sago 2. Flute playing in the forest 3. The men's house 4. A house ""mother"" 5. A healthy gift of jewelry 6. Iai marriage and the repetition of names 7. The oedipal triangulation of iai marriage 8. Giving gifts after a naven ceremony 9. Mothers frolicking in a canoe 10. Honorific mud smearing 11. Women dance a naven with a spirit 12. The performance of nggariik
