Ways of Baloma: Rethinking Magic and Kinship from the Trobriands Tapa blanda - 2017

Chicago: Hau Books, 2017. 473 pages. Paperback 23 x 15cms. ISBN: 9780997367560.

HAU Books. New. 2017. Paperback. 0997367563 . Malinowski Monographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 516 pages .

Paperback / softback. New. Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on extended fieldwork at Omarakana village home of the Tabalu "Paramount Chief" Mark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between the mirror worlds that baloma and humans inhabit. Informed by a synthesis of Strathern's model of "dividual personhood" and Levy-Bruhl's theory of "participation," Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology's other leading… Leer más

Hau, 2017. Paperback. New. 390 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.