Ӧmie Sex Affiliation : : A Papuan Nature / / Marta Rohatynskyj.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Rohatynskyj, Marta,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on the Text --; Introduction --; 1 Ömie Neighbors, Contact History, and the Ethnographic Encounter --; 2 Female and Male Persons in a Polyontological World --; 3 Ömie Totemism --; 4 Myths, Metaphors, and the Ujawe --; 5 Ömie Sex Affiliation: Comparisons and Instances --; Conclusion: Sex Affiliation in Papua New Guinean Ethnography --; Appendices --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800736610; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800736610
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marta Rohatynskyj.

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts of kinship studies to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents. The author argues that this practice is associated with a totemic/animistic ontology and has currency in a particular type of Melanesian society.