{"product_id":"masculinity-motherhood-and-mockery-eric-kline-silverman-9780472067572","title":"Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea","description":"\u003ci\u003eMasculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery\u003c\/i\u003e 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, fertile, and chaste--in a word, moral. But men also fear an equally compelling image of motherhood that is defiling, dangerous, orificial, aggressive, and carnal--hence, grotesque. Masculinity in Tambunum is a rejoinder both subtle and strident, both muted and impassioned, to these contrary, embodied images of motherhood. \u003cbr\u003eThroughout this work, Eric Silverman details the dialogics of mothering and manhood throughout Eastern Iatmul culture, including in his analysis cosmology and myth; food- and childraising; architecture and canoes; ethnophysiology and sexuality; shame and hygiene; marriage and kinship; and perhaps most significantly, a ceremonial \u003ci\u003elocus classicus\u003c\/i\u003e in anthropology: the famous Iatmul \u003ci\u003enaven\u003c\/i\u003e rite. This book provides the first sustained examination of \u003ci\u003enaven\u003c\/i\u003e since Bateson, presenting new data and interpretations that are based entirely on original, first-hand ethnographic research. \u003cbr\u003eThe sustained engagement with anthropological and psychoanalytic theory coupled with a refreshing examination of a famous and still-enigmatic ritual is sure to make multiple contributions to pressing debates in contemporary anthropology and social theory. \u003cbr\u003eEric Silverman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, DePauw University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Kline Silverman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472067575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472067572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.00w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 2001","brand":"Eric Kline Silverman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064990806271,"sku":"9780472067572","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fa655d1-2b46-411e-9660-626689afb9f4.jpg?v=1768672407","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/masculinity-motherhood-and-mockery-eric-kline-silverman-9780472067572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}