List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
Preface
Overtures, Ethnographic and Theoretical
Chapter 1. The Aesthetics of Fieldwork among the Kewa
- The Style and Tone of Kewa Life
- Bickering, Bantering and Coming to Blows
- Place, Movement and Residential Mobility
- Daily Life Scrambling into the Field: Mining the Field and Eliciting Minefields
Chapter 2. Self Strategies: Ascription, Interlocution, Elicitation
- The Person/Self/Individual
- An Archaeology of the Self Ascription: Distinguishing, Co-creating and Merging Self and Other
- A Modern History of the Self: Interlocution and Its Denial
- The Everyday Self: Language and Communication at Issue
- What Speech Does: Communication as Capability Strategies
- Elicitation, Explicitness, Rehearsed and Rehearsing Talk and Action
- Conclusion
PART I: NARRATIVES
Chapter 3. Narrating the Self I: Moral Constructions of the Self as Paradigmatic Accounts
- Theories of Narrative
- Narrative and Paradigmatic Thought
- Ethics, Morality and the Self in Paradigmatic Accounts
- The Storytellers (Wapa, Ragunanu, Pupula, Yakiranu, Payanu) Kewa
- Pre-contact Practices and Persons: A Narrative of Many Growing up
- Of Courtship and Marriage
- Of Magic and Gardens Spirit Houses
- Pig Kills Warfare and Pacification
- Conclusions: Moral Constructions of the Self as Paradigmatic Accounts
Chapter 4. Narrating the Self II: Metanarratives of Culture, Self, and Change
- The Storytellers (Rumbame, Alirapu, Mayanu, Mapi)
- Rumbame's Story
- Alirapu's Story
- Mayanu's Story (Excerpt)
- Mapi's Story
- Mapi: Visionary and Dreamer
- Four Features Revisited and Expanded
- Creating Moral Personhood
- Constructing Coherent Selves
- Constructing Critical Metanarratives
- Facing Modernity and Christianity
- Conclusion
Chapter 5. Narrating the Self III: The Heroic, the Epic and the Picaresque in a Changed World
- The Storytellers (Hapkas, Papola, Rimbu, Lari)
- The Stories: Third Set Hapkas's (Nasupeli's) Story
- Papola's Story
- Rimbu's Story
- Lari's Story
- Seizing the New World: Narrative, Consciousness and Communication
- The Heroic, the Epic, the Picaresque and the Symbolic
- Narrative as Form of Consciousness and Organization of Experience
- Experience and Consciousness
- Morality Narratives as Communication
PART II: PORTRAITS (Several Weddings, Some Divorces and Three Funerals)
Chapter 6. Portraits and Minimal Narratives: Elicitations of Social Reality
- Portraits, Stories and Minimal Narratives
- Elicitation and Explicitness
- Language, Talk and Action
- Norms and Claims: Rehearsed and Rehearsing
- Talk and Action
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. Love and All That: Negotiating Marriage and Marital Life
- Courtship Problems with Bride Price
- Irregular Unions
- Polygyny and Conflict
- Ainu and Yako
- Giame and Yadi
- Lari and Rimbu
- Liame, Rosa and Kiru
- Rarapalu, Karupiri, Foti and Waliya
- Negotiating Marriage and Marital Life
- Love and All That
Chapter 8. The Politics of Death
- Who's the Big Man of Us All?
- Rake's Death
- Duties to Persons, Rights in Persons: Wapa's Death
- Out with the Old, in with the New: Payanu's Death
- Death and Recurring Conflict: Conclusion
Chapter 9. Mimesis, Ethnography and Knowledge
- Stories, Ethnography, Theory
- Mimesis as a Way of Knowing
- Ethnography as Difference, Locality and Chronicle
- Cultural Region and the Tyranny of Theoretical Regionalism
- Ethnography as Chronicle of Cultural History/History of Consciousness
References
Index