Saltwater Sociality

Katharina Schneider obtained her PhD degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. She has conducted doctoral fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.

• List of Tables A note on languages Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Pororan and Buka, 2004 Movements: an ethnographic focus Studying movements: some methods Movements as objectification Chapter 1. Fishing people Anywhere, anytime, anybody Gardening and fishing Fishing methods Going around: opening up space and time Return from the sea Sia and Hulu Chapter 2. Kin on the move Watching, discussing and eliciting movements Mothers and children Pinaposa gatherings Fathers, or 'making grow' The ninja Matrilineal kinship: a view from Pororan Chapter 3. Mobile places Buka history: an overview Ancestral settlement Colonial gathering Present-day 'pulling' Leitana and the little thing Stones Chapter 4. Pinaposa Matrilineages 'by the hair' Pinaposa relations across Buka The Pororans on ancestral roads Orchestrating movements, and going around in the bush Migration stories Hatsunon Conclusion Chapter 5. Marriage and mortuary rites Sinahan Tightening a relation Mortuary rites Persons at death Objects of forgetting Bung malot: the end of mourning Hahur: 'a mark of being human' Finishing mourning on the mainland Chapter 6. Movements and kastom 'Writing down the clans' 'Straightening traditional leadership' 'Straightening the ground' A Pororan kastom event Conclusion The argument Pororan, Melanesia Pororan, at sea Glossary. Hapororan and Tok Pisin terms Appendix A. Pororan travel routes, 2004-05 Appendix B. Some fishing terms Appendix C. Melanesian Pidgin and Hapororan kin terms Appendix D. Stories and Solomon Bibliography Index

" - methodologically innovative, theoretically sophisticated, ethnographically engaging, and beautifully written - what makes this book especially noteworthy is the author's ability to bring closely observed research data into productive dialogue with general social scientific theories." * Michael W. Scott, London School of Economics " - a fascinating manuscript. It is clearly and straightforwardly written, adds new and important ethnographic material to the small but growing contemporary literature of Island Melanesia, and is relevant to current debates in a number of ways." * James Leach, University of Aberdeen