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Ways of Baloma: Rethinking Magic and Kinship from the Trobriands by Mark S Mosko
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- Book Title
- Ways of Baloma: Rethinking Magic and Kinship from the Trobriands
- Publication Date
- 2017-11-15
- Pages
- 516
- ISBN
- 9780997367560
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Publisher
Hau Books
ISBN-10
0997367563
ISBN-13
9780997367560
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236925122
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
516 Pages
Publication Name
Ways of Baloma : Rethinking Magic and Kinship from the Trobriands
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Series
Malinowski Monographs
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.1 in
Item Weight
28.1 Oz
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0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-945173
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Ways of Baloma is thick description articulated through one of the most sustained theoretical discussions our times allow. . . . This book is an anthropology as it was meant to be, intense scholarship and searching ethnography. For these times it is gripping in its level of interaction between the analyst and his subjects. . . . As we all know, one of the marvels of Malinowski's work was that for decades people could make arguments with it somewhat askance to Malinowski's own theoretical commitments. For some anthropologists, this quality became the standard to replicate: create a coherent argument with a rich body of data and then let time do the re-telling. By this standard Mosko has created a sequel to Malinowski's ethnography. This work is rich enough to be handled somewhat differently by different yet sympathetic readers., In this impressive volume, Mark Mosko provides an in-depth critique of Malinowski's perception and articulation of life in Northern Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. . . . In this ethnographically and analytically rich and complex work, Mosko shows the composite character of both persons and spirits, of shadows, images and powers, and their timeless interrelationship through kinship. A short review cannot do justice to this magnificent volume. . . . Mosko's aim to dig meticulously into cosmogonic and cosmological foundations of conceptualcum-practical existence of Trobrianders required complex in-depth discussions with those who are guardians of such a knowledge and capable of reflection. Together, I would say, they fully succeeded., Bronislaw Malinowski's work on the Trobriand Islands of Melanesia is still respected, though not sacrosanct, a century after he conducted it. Succeeding anthropologists amplified or challenged his analyses and investigated areas he overlooked. Annette Wiener, for example, focused on the neglected topic of gender and Trobriand women in Women of Value, Men of Renown (1976). Mosko is the most recent Trobriand ethnographer, and the most comprehensive. He investigates the role of magic in the present, animated by Malinowski's recognition that magic infused every area of Trobriand life. Nine chapters cover classic topics such as cosmology, mortuary ritual, reproduction, taboo, rank, kinship, marriage rules, and chiefly succession. Mosko generously acknowledges his Trobriand collaborators and the Trobriand work of other anthropologists. Most importantly, his research demonstrates the way that a century of anthropological theory and research, along with changing contexts and interpretive frameworks, have allowed new insights about Trobriand kinship, personhood, magico-religious beliefs, Christian conversion, and the relationship between humans and spirits. The author concludes that traditional beliefs and practices surrounding kinship and magic have remained material to Trobriand life through a century of colonial and postcolonial transformation. This important book is mandatory for all four-year and university research collections. Essential., Challenges prevailing anthropological representations of Trobriand life. . . . It is a fitting culmination of [Mosko]'s anthropological corpus and a splendid example of what our hyper-productive Emeriti can do in retirement. Echoing a canonical Trobriand botanical idiom, I declare that the base has risen through the body to the tip and has borne fine fruit., Mark S. Mosko distinguishes himself as one of the leaders of contemporary Pacific anthropology. . . . With compelling theoretical and conceptual reflections, as well as twenty-first century ethnographic and analytical ambitions, Ways of Baloma is a remarkable work worthy of the classics. . ., The Trobriand Islanders are one of the most thoroughly studied societies in the world. Is it possible, though, that after a century of fieldwork by some of anthropology's most illustrious figures, including Annette Weiner and the master Bronislaw Malinowski himself, there is still much that has been misunderstood or overlooked? Mark Mosko makes a convincing case that some core aspects of Trobriand culture have eluded us and that comprehending those aspects solves major questions or mysteries in Trobriand ethnography., In this important volume, Mark Mosko presents a reinterpretation of some of the key tenets of Trobriand social organization, delivered as a direct challenge to much of the classic ethnographic analyses of this 'sacred place' in anthropology's canon. . . . This is undoubtedly an important addition to the corpus not only of Trobriand ethnography, but to the discipline as a whole. . . . Sure to be required reading for scholars of the Massim region and Melanesia/Oceania more broadly, as well as those interested in exchange, sacrifice, kinship, magic, and social organization.
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.0899912
Synopsis
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 L vy-Bruhl's theory of "participation," Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology's other leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of "life" ( momova ) and "death" ( kaliga ) strikes at the nexus of anthropology's received wisdom, and Ways of Baloma will inevitably lead practitioners and students to reflect anew on the discipline's multifold theories of personhood, ritual agency, and sociality., 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 Lévy-Bruhl's theory of "participation," Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology's other leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of "life" ( momova ) and "death" ( kaliga ) strikes at the nexus of anthropology's received wisdom, and Ways of Baloma will inevitably lead practitioners and students to reflect anew on the discipline's multifold theories of personhood, ritual agency, and sociality.
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DU740.42
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