The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality

The Heart of the Pearl Shell

The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality

James F. Weiner

Suggested citation:
Weiner, James F. The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1988. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7w10087d/

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Orthography

Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II The Ethnographic Setting
Chapter III The Responsibility of Males
Chapter IV Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi Sociality
Chapter V The Solicitude of Affines
Chapter VI Metaphor and Substitution
Chapter VII Obviation and Myth
Chapter VIII Intersexual Mediation
Chapter IX Female Reproductivity
Chapter X The Anxiety of Affines
Chapter XI Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity
Chapter XII The Hidden Myth

Notes
References

Contents