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Une épouse pour de l'argent ? : des pratiques matrimoniales en mutation et leurs répercussions socio-culturelles chez les Baruya de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Malbrancke, Anne-Sylvie |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | This PhD dissertation analyses social change among the Baruya of Papua New Guinea, through the perspective of their marriage practices, which have changed substantially since M. Godelier first conducted research among them some 40 years ago. Based on fieldwork carried out in 2013-14 in the same areas where Godelier worked, this study considers changing matrimonial ideas as enunciated in discourses and analyzes their correspondences with and discepancies from marital strategies in fact. Supplementing the work's recent ethnography, Godelier's original data were analyzed, thus enabling longitudinal perspective. Important interp^retative models elaborated by Godelier are now interrogated, including his conceptualization of male domination and his paradigm of Great Men. I explore the entailments and implications of increasing recourse to brideprice marriage among Baruya, who previously practiced sister-exchange. Does this change the meaning and implications of Baruya exchange - and our theorization of it? The thesis reflects on the impact made by the introduction of money in marriage transactions, icluding the resulting impact both on everyday social relations and larger parameters of power. Are we witnessing a new logic of social stratification? This issues are illuminated by an important metamorphosis of baruya beliefs, through which changed notions of bodily substance transmission connect with asoftening of separation in the sexual division of labor as well as the emergence of new matrimonial rules. As a whole, these changes allow women new spaces to be seen and heard in Baruya society and access to avenues of "Greatmanshit" that were previously reserved for initiated men. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01494390/document |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
