What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating “creativity” as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage, exchange and artistic production as the activities in which substantial connection is generated. The argument, made in relation to detailed ethnography, yields a fresh perspective on the connections people trace to each other.
- ISBN10 1571816933
- ISBN13 9781571816931
- Publish Date 1 August 2004 (first published 14 August 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 258
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/LeachCreative