Bodies and Persons : Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

Bodies and Persons : Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

Bodies and Persons : Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is a valuable contribution to comparative ethnography." Religious Studies Review

"Lambek and Strathern have produced a rich and fascinating volume...This volume should interest all who are concerned with Africa, Melanesia, comparison, person/body, and contemporary anthropological theory. It is an example of what the best of edited volumes should be." Pacific Affairs Winter 01

Book Description
This book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, understood in terms of what anthropologists call embodiment. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals in healing, and even the impact of capitalism. Questioning common assumptions about the huge differences among these discrete areas, the contributions document surprising continuities.

Bodies and Persons : Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia,Michael Lambek,Andrew Strathern,Cambridge University Press,0521627370,Africa,Anthropology - Cultural,Anthropology - General,Archaeology / Anthropology,Body, Human,Melanesia,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Social aspects,Sociology,Symbolic aspects,Cultural studies,Social & cultural anthropology,Social Science / Anthropology / General

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