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  • Yabar

    The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity

    by David Lipset ...
    Series series Culture, Mind, and Society
    This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift. Lipset analyses young men’s elusive expressions of desire in courtship ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Knots

    Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought

    Edited by David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Mortuary Dialogues

    Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

    Edited by David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman ...
    Series Book 7 - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
    Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book’s key concept, “mortuary dialogue,” describes the different genres of talk ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Vehicles

    Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

    Edited by David Lipset, Richard Handler ...
    Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral ... Read more

    $23.79 USD