Omie Sex Affiliation

Marta Rohatynskyj taught for over twenty years in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and published on the topics of gender and development both in the Papua New Guinean setting as well as elsewhere. Her publications include the co-edited volume with Sjoerd Jaarsma Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology (University of Hawaii Press, 2000).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on TextIntroductionChapter 1. Omie Neighbors, Contact History, and the Ethnographic EncounterChapter 2. Female and Male Persons in a Poly-Ontological WorldChapter 3. Omie TotemismChapter 4. Myths, Metaphors and the UjaweChapter 5. Omie Sex Affiliation: Comparisons and InstancesConclusion: Sex Affiliation in Papua New Guinean EthnographyAppendixGlossaryReferencesIndex

"It offers a unique contribution to the literature on Papua New Guinea societies. The ethnography was collected at a time when it was possible to engage with people who had witnessed and participated in complex rites which have lapsed or been replaced by recent introductions." * James Leach, CNRS