List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. ¿mie Neighbors, Contact History, and the Ethnographic Encounter
Chapter 2. Female and Male Persons in a Poly-Ontological World
Chapter 3. ¿mie Totemism
Chapter 4. Myths, Metaphors and the Ujawe
Chapter 5. ¿mie Sex Affiliation: Comparisons and Instances

Conclusion: Sex Affiliation in Papua New Guinean Ethnography

Appendix
Glossary
References
Index

Marta Rohatynskyj taught for over twenty years in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and published on the topics of gender and development both in the Papua New Guinean setting as well as elsewhere. Her publications include the co-edited volume with Sjoerd Jaarsma Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology (University of Hawaii Press, 2000).