Description: rhp 1rrh: Contents 1h Contents xt comp: add page nos. on proof List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note to Readers Chapter 1. Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral Part One: Cosmic Masculinity Chapter 2. Food and Floods Chapter 3. Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders Chapter 4. Human Bodies Chapter 5. The Architectural Grotesque Part Two: Social Masculinity Chapter 6. A Symbolic Forest of Kin Chapter 7. Oedipus in the Sepik Chapter 8. The Shame of Masculinity Part Three: Ritual Masculinity Chapter 9. Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven Chapter 10. Conclusion: Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity Epilogue: Masculinity Beyond the Sepik Notes References Index o come rhp 1rrh: Illustrations 1h Illustrations xt comp: add page nos. to proof Map 1. Sepik region of Papua New Guinea 1s Figures 1. Processing sago 2. Flute playing in the forest 3. The men's house 4. A house ""mother"" 5. A healthy gift of jewelry 6. Iai marriage and the repetition of names 7. The oedipal triangulation of iai marriage 8. Giving gifts after a naven ceremony 9. Mothers frolicking in a canoe 10. Honorific mud smearing 11. Women dance a naven with a spirit 12. The performance of nggariik

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