Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea

by Eric Kline Silverman

Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery analyzes the relationship between masculinity and motherhood in an Eastern Iatmul village along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It focuses on a metaphorical dialogue between two countervailing images of the body, dubbed by literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin as the "moral" and the "grotesque." Eastern Iatmul men in Tambunum village idealize an image of motherhood that is nurturing, sheltering, cleansing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472067575
• ISBN13: 9780472067572
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"