Anne‐sylvie Malbrancke
Biographic Data
| ID | 100046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne‐sylvie Malbrancke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne‐sylvie |
| FAMILY NAME | Malbrancke |
| SIGNATURE | MALBRANCKE A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amériques |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making the Baruya great again
This paper explores avenues for prestige‐making now available to and championed by the Baruya, the archetypal ‘Great Man’ people of Papua New Guinea, who I recently studied following previous work by Maurice Godelier. Amid critiques by Robbins and Ortner of anthropologists’ drive to document and empathise with “suffering subjects”, I suggest that being ‘left behind’ and ‘forgotten’ is an important part of Baruya social life that reinterprets prev…
Gender, Structuralist Theories of
Structuralist theories of gender or sex are generally based on, or attempt to demonstrate, a relationship that is expressed in terms of the structural formula: men are to culture what women are to nature, or men are to women what culture is to nature. In continuity with the former functionalist approaches, which saw gender difference as a consequence of the biological particularities of each sex, the structuralist approach attempts to demonstrate…
Elementary Structures of Kinship, The / Les structures Élémentaires de la Parenté
First published in 1949, The Elementary Structures of Kinship , by French anthropologist Claude Lévi‐Strauss, provided a new perspective on kinship systems and relationships. Lévi‐Strauss explains that humans left the state of animality to enter culture through the prohibition of incest. Instead of marrying their mother, sister, or daughter, men exchanged them to other groups, following the positive rule of exogamy. Elementary structures are char…
Pollution
The concept of pollution, or symbolic contamination, comes from the variable understanding that every culture has of what constitutes purity: the inner essence of a person can be either pure or defiled. The various processes of the human body are universally considered polluting and can be subject to ritual purification. Mary Douglas's groundbreaking work on pollution theory proposes that the cultural coding of a substance as a pollutant is roote…
Levirate
The levirate is a practice consisting of the marriage between a widow and the brother of her dead husband. In the “true” levirate system, any children born to the new union will be raised in the name of the deceased to ensure his legacy, the brother being regarded as a replacement or proxy. Where the levirate exists today, it aims at providing male security to the widow, and any children that may be born subsequently are considered the descendant…
Conception Beliefs
Conception beliefs, or procreation beliefs, are the various ways in which people in different societies represent, conceive of, or phrase the process of making a child. Conception beliefs vary from society to society and assign a specific part or place to the genitors and entities surrounding the coming into being of a new individual: mother, father, and their respective bodily substances; ancestors; and “suprahuman” entities, and so on. These be…
Ghost Marriage
The “ghost marriage” is a practice similar to the levirate, whereby a woman marries a man in the name of his deceased brother. This rare form of alliance is found in very few cultures and aims at ensuring the legacy of a lineage. For rich women among the Nuer of South Sudan, it is a means of preserving their own wealth; a woman can thus take on the role of a man and marry another woman, who will bear children in the name of the “ghost pater.” Som…
Cults, Male and Female
Male and female cults aim to promote fertility in men and women as well as of the land and, more generally, to reproduce the cosmos through a series of rituals, which may follow various stages and change children into men and women (in rites of passage or initiations), ready to reproduce the social and physical body of a given society. The practices enacted during male and female cults are intricately related to social orders and the representati…
Du sperme au sang
Partant d’une analyse longitudinale des mariages chez les Baruya de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, cet article revisite leurs croyances et pratiques relatives aux substances corporelles, ainsi que les idéologies associées qui structurent les relations entre les sexes. Sans déduire de causalité mécanique entre les divers phénomènes abordés ici, je cherche à montrer que les « métamorphoses de la parenté » baruya s’accompagnent et sont reflétées par des…
Dix commandements mais pas de Dieu
L’anthropologie du christianisme en Mélanésie a récemment permis d’enrichir les théories du changement social en prônant une approche centrée principalement autour du concept de rupture. Riche analytiquement, cette perspective doit cependant être nuancée pour envisager des situations où le christianisme est un idiome qui, loin de rompre avec des valeurs morales indigènes, les renforce. Parmi les Baruya de Nouvelle-Guinée, une perception indigène …
Dix commandements mais pas de Dieu
L’anthropologie du christianisme en Mélanésie a récemment permis d’enrichir les théories du changement social en prônant une approche centrée principalement autour du concept de rupture. Riche analytiquement, cette perspective doit cependant être nuancée pour envisager des situations où le christianisme est un idiome qui, loin de rompre avec des valeurs morales indigènes, les renforce. Parmi les Baruya de Nouvelle-Guinée, une perception indigène …
Du sperme au sang
Partant d’une analyse longitudinale des mariages chez les Baruya de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, cet article revisite leurs croyances et pratiques relatives aux substances corporelles, ainsi que les idéologies associées qui structurent les relations entre les sexes. Sans déduire de causalité mécanique entre les divers phénomènes abordés ici, je cherche à montrer que les « métamorphoses de la parenté » baruya s’accompagnent et sont reflétées par des…
Dix commandements mais pas de Dieu
L’anthropologie du christianisme en Mélanésie a récemment permis d’enrichir les théories du changement social en prônant une approche centrée principalement autour du concept de rupture. Riche analytiquement, cette perspective doit cependant être nuancée pour envisager des situations où le christianisme est un idiome qui, loin de rompre avec des valeurs morales indigènes, les renforce. Parmi les Baruya de Nouvelle-Guinée, une perception indigène …
Du sperme au sang
Partant d’une analyse longitudinale des mariages chez les Baruya de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, cet article revisite leurs croyances et pratiques relatives aux substances corporelles, ainsi que les idéologies associées qui structurent les relations entre les sexes. Sans déduire de causalité mécanique entre les divers phénomènes abordés ici, je cherche à montrer que les « métamorphoses de la parenté » baruya s’accompagnent et sont reflétées par des…
Gender, Structuralist Theories of
Structuralist theories of gender or sex are generally based on, or attempt to demonstrate, a relationship that is expressed in terms of the structural formula: men are to culture what women are to nature, or men are to women what culture is to nature. In continuity with the former functionalist approaches, which saw gender difference as a consequence of the biological particularities of each sex, the structuralist approach attempts to demonstrate…
Elementary Structures of Kinship, The / Les structures Élémentaires de la Parenté
First published in 1949, The Elementary Structures of Kinship , by French anthropologist Claude Lévi‐Strauss, provided a new perspective on kinship systems and relationships. Lévi‐Strauss explains that humans left the state of animality to enter culture through the prohibition of incest. Instead of marrying their mother, sister, or daughter, men exchanged them to other groups, following the positive rule of exogamy. Elementary structures are char…
Pollution
The concept of pollution, or symbolic contamination, comes from the variable understanding that every culture has of what constitutes purity: the inner essence of a person can be either pure or defiled. The various processes of the human body are universally considered polluting and can be subject to ritual purification. Mary Douglas's groundbreaking work on pollution theory proposes that the cultural coding of a substance as a pollutant is roote…
Levirate
The levirate is a practice consisting of the marriage between a widow and the brother of her dead husband. In the “true” levirate system, any children born to the new union will be raised in the name of the deceased to ensure his legacy, the brother being regarded as a replacement or proxy. Where the levirate exists today, it aims at providing male security to the widow, and any children that may be born subsequently are considered the descendant…
Conception Beliefs
Conception beliefs, or procreation beliefs, are the various ways in which people in different societies represent, conceive of, or phrase the process of making a child. Conception beliefs vary from society to society and assign a specific part or place to the genitors and entities surrounding the coming into being of a new individual: mother, father, and their respective bodily substances; ancestors; and “suprahuman” entities, and so on. These be…
Ghost Marriage
The “ghost marriage” is a practice similar to the levirate, whereby a woman marries a man in the name of his deceased brother. This rare form of alliance is found in very few cultures and aims at ensuring the legacy of a lineage. For rich women among the Nuer of South Sudan, it is a means of preserving their own wealth; a woman can thus take on the role of a man and marry another woman, who will bear children in the name of the “ghost pater.” Som…
Cults, Male and Female
Male and female cults aim to promote fertility in men and women as well as of the land and, more generally, to reproduce the cosmos through a series of rituals, which may follow various stages and change children into men and women (in rites of passage or initiations), ready to reproduce the social and physical body of a given society. The practices enacted during male and female cults are intricately related to social orders and the representati…
Making the Baruya great again
This paper explores avenues for prestige‐making now available to and championed by the Baruya, the archetypal ‘Great Man’ people of Papua New Guinea, who I recently studied following previous work by Maurice Godelier. Amid critiques by Robbins and Ortner of anthropologists’ drive to document and empathise with “suffering subjects”, I suggest that being ‘left behind’ and ‘forgotten’ is an important part of Baruya social life that reinterprets prev…
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