Masculinity, motherhood, and mockery : psychoanalyzing culture and the Iatmul Naven rite in New Guinea /

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Main Author: Silverman, Eric Kline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral 1
  • PART 1: COSMIC MASCULINITY
  • 2 Food and Floods 15
  • 3 Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders 27
  • 4 Human Bodies 47
  • 5 The Architectural Grotesque 64
  • PART 2: SOCIAL MASCULINITY
  • 6 A Symbolic Forest of Kin 83
  • 7 Oedipus in the Sepik 1oo
  • 8 The Shame of Masculinity 116
  • PART 3: RITUAL MASCULINITY
  • 9 Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven 133
  • 10 Conclusion: Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity 159
  • Epilogue: Masculinity beyond the Sepik 174
  • Notes 179
  • References 203
  • Index 233.