Killing as reproductive agency : Dugong, pigs, and humanity among the Kiwai, circa 1900

摘要: For Kiwai of south New Guinea a century ago, hunting anthropomorphic animals was formative culturally-ordered experiences human sexual reproduction and mortality. Through consideration diverse selection representations related to the killing dugong pigs, this essay suggests that asymmetric roles men women in social relations realized broad pattern simultaneous antipathy affinity between procreation. animal signs, recognized interconnections mortality while simultaneously repressing unacceptable aspects interconnectedness