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Article: The problem of mute metaphor: gender and kinship in seaboard Melanesia. (Murik people of Papua New Guinea)
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- Ethnology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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This article examines how genealogical relationships are differentially expressed by women and men. In particular, it analyzes five paired sets of kinship data that were collected in a Melanesian society during the early 1980s. These data support the following assertions: (1) between the sexes, discourse of kinship is not monologic or closed off from contestation or at least disagreement; (2) the ways in which kinship discourse varies does not engage the sexes in self-contained views that may be isolable or set in opposition to each other; and (3) the relationship between or among these discursive differences expresses interrelated embodiments of the sexes in folk ...
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