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The Magical Body

Studies in Anthropology and History

Studies in Anthropology and History is a series which develops new theoretical perspectives, and combines comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research.
Edited by James Carrier, University of Durham, UK.
Associate editors: Nicholas Thomas, The Australian National University, Canberra and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Wisconsin, USA.
VOLUME 1	Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponams Progress in the Twentieth Century ACHSAH H. CARRIER and JAMES G. CARRIER
VOLUME 2	Androgynous Objects: String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea MAUREEN ANNE MACKENZIE
VOLUME 3	Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 19711991 JOHANNES FABIAN
VOLUME 4	Colonial Space: Spatiality in the Discourse of German South West Africa, 18841915 JOHN NOYES
VOLUME 5	Catastrophe and Creation: The Transformation of an African Culture KAJSA EKHOLM FRIEDMAN
VOLUME 6	Before Social Anthropology: Essays on the History of British Anthropology JAMES URRY
VOLUME 7	The Ghotul in Muria Society SIMERAN MAN SINGH GELL
VOLUME 8	Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis KAREN FOG OLWIG
VOLUME 9	The Return of the Ainu: Cultural Mobilization and the Practice of Ethnicity in Japan KATARINA V. SJBERG
VOLUME 10	Tradition and Christianity: The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society BEN BURT
VOLUME 11	Recovering the Orient: Artists, Scholars, Appropriations edited by ANTHONY MILNER and ANDREW GERSTLE
VOLUME 12	Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu MARGARET JOLLY
VOLUME 13	A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel, 15501800 JUSTIN STAGL
VOLUME 14	Exploring Confrontation. Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History MICHAEL ROBERTS
VOLUME 15	Consumption and Identity edited by JONATHAN FRIEDMAN
VOLUME 16	Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and International Tourism MALCOLM CRICK
VOLUME 17	The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany JEFF PRATT
VOLUME 18	The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn GSLI PLSSON
VOLUME 19	Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific edited by TON OTTO and NICHOLAS THOMAS
VOLUME 20	Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal edited by DAVID GELLNER, JOANNA PFAFF-CZARNECKA and JOHN WHELPTON
VOLUME 21	Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange C.A. GREGORY
VOLUME 22	Shared Revelation: Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika PETER PELS
VOLUME 23	The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society RICHARD EVES
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VOLUME 24	Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology BRONWEN DOUGLAS
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Richard Eves

The Magical Body

Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society

First published 1998 by Harwood Academic Publishers

Published 2013 by Routledge

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Eves, Richard

The magical body : power, fame and meaning in a Melanesian society. (Studies in anthropology and history; v. 23)

1. Body, Human Papua New Guinea 2. Body, Human Papua New Guinea Folklore 3. Body, Human Religious aspects 4. Body, Human Papua New Guinea Symbolic aspects 5. Papua New Guinea Civilization 6. Papua New Guinea Social life and customs

I. Title

306.4

ISBN 13: 978-9-057-02305-7 (hbk)

Contents

Map of Papua New Guinea

Map of central New Ireland

Magician leading tubuan masked figure to dance

Mens tubuan dance performance

Womens dance performance

Womens dance performance

Female ego terms of address

Male ego terms of address

Heirloom shell valuable

Salut holding her clan heirloom

Some larada forms and abodes

Named stages in garden cycle

Garden processes and magical intervention

Summary of mortuary feasts

Summary of lokpanga mortuary feast

Arrival and exchange of pigs and taro at mortuary feast

Women peeling taro at mortuary feast

Exchange of shell valuables at mortuary feast

Climactic lavavang standing on pigs at lokpanga

Finishing the head of the deceased

Pork heaped ready for distribution

Pigs heads and taro ready for distribution

Maratin at lokpanga, Lelet Plateau 1991.

All photographs by the author.

T his book explores and describes the lived world of the people inhabiting the Lelet Plateau in central New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (see ). It examines the nature of the relationships between magic, power, and the body in the Lelet world, and the changes occurring as their horizons are expanded under the diverse influences of Christianity and colonialism. The focus is on the issue of embodiment and the forms of corporeal imagery the Lelet deploy in creating their world and in their magical practices in particular. I argue that the pervasiveness of bodily images in their discourse poetically echoes the Lelet corporeal engagement with the world. Their emphasis on the body in action suggests that corporeality is the threshold between people and the world and their encounters with others.

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