Gillian Gillison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Gillison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillison |
| SIGNATURE | GILLISON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women
‘Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia ( PNG )’ by Jadran Mimica
Jadran Mimica presents the ‘life‐world’ of Yagwoia people of Papua New Guinea as a unique variant of the Jungian Ouroboric archetype, a primal pattern or symbol derived from the ancient Greek ‘tail devourer’ (the serpent that eats its own tail), found in many cultures and individual unconscious phantasies. Treated in terms of ‘ouroboric dialectics’, relations between Yagwoia father and son are hostile, even patricidal, because the son's very exis…
She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women: A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Totem and Taboo in the New Guinea Highlands: The Collusion of Sisters and Brothers
Gillian Gillison revisits her classic ethnographic study of the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on their myths and rituals surrounding cannibalism, particularly as they relate to the complex interplay between brothers and sisters. She explores the symbolic significance of consuming "rubbish" (including the bodies of the deceased) as a means of containing pollution and maintaining social order. Gillison argues that Gimi…
Whatever Happened to the Mother? A New Look at the Old Problem of the Mother's Brother in Three New Guinea Societies: Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul
Kinship systems cannot be analysed as straightforward translations of the ‘facts of nature’ when those facts are limited to the production of a child by a heterosexual couple. Based upon analyses of three New Guinea societies (Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul), I suggest that kinship systems take account – often by denying – certain ‘facts’ of human reproduction when those facts are extended beyond coitus and parturition to include both the very long per…
The ‘Dividual Androgyne’ and Me: A Personal Affair
In the 25 years since Marilyn Strathern published The Gender of the Gift (1988) its signature concepts of the ‘dividual androgyne’ and ‘sociality’ have received almost no criticism in the anthropological literature and are now widely accepted as true. The ‘dividual’ is considered to be ‘a new, non‐unitary model of embodiment and ... one of the most important theoretical accomplishments to emerge from Melanesian ethnography in the latter part of t…
Culture-A Post-Concept
Explaining Culture Scientifically, edited by Melissa J. Brown, attempts to rehabilitate the concept of culture from the depravations of postmodernism by reestablishing the relevance of evolutionary science. But it does not attempt to explain postmodernism's phenomenal success in anthropology, history, and other disciplines in which the study of culture is forefront. "Evolutionary science" includes cognitivism, which, like postmodernism and the re…
From Cannibalism to Genocide: The Work of Denial
In Cannibal Talk, Gananath Obeyesekere sets out to expose cannibalism as racist slander and anthropologists' perpetuation of a mistaken sense of "identity." In the very act of denying its existence, however, he employs it as sheep's clothing for the beast of genocide and other atrocities, implying that they, too, can be classified as slander or treated as aberrations outside the bounds of social rules or analysis. In claiming to deconstruct centu…
L'anthropologie psychanalytique. Un paradigme marginal
Gillison Gillian. L'anthropologie psychanalytique. Un paradigme marginal. In: L'Homme, 1999, tome 39 n°149. Anthropologie psychanalytique. pp. 43-52
Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society. Maria Lepowsky
Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
Incest and the Atom of Kinship: The Role of the Mother's Brother in a New Guinea Highlands Society
Le Pénis géant Le frère de la mère dans les Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée
Gillison Gillian. Le Pénis géant Le frère de la mère dans les Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée. In: L'Homme, 1986, tome 26 n°99. pp. 41-69
Incest and the Atom of Kinship: The Role of the Mother's Brother in a New Guinea Highlands Society
L'anthropologie psychanalytique. Un paradigme marginal
Gillison Gillian. L'anthropologie psychanalytique. Un paradigme marginal. In: L'Homme, 1999, tome 39 n°149. Anthropologie psychanalytique. pp. 43-52
Le Pénis géant Le frère de la mère dans les Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée
Gillison Gillian. Le Pénis géant Le frère de la mère dans les Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée. In: L'Homme, 1986, tome 26 n°99. pp. 41-69
From Cannibalism to Genocide: The Work of Denial
In Cannibal Talk, Gananath Obeyesekere sets out to expose cannibalism as racist slander and anthropologists' perpetuation of a mistaken sense of "identity." In the very act of denying its existence, however, he employs it as sheep's clothing for the beast of genocide and other atrocities, implying that they, too, can be classified as slander or treated as aberrations outside the bounds of social rules or analysis. In claiming to deconstruct centu…
Culture-A Post-Concept
Explaining Culture Scientifically, edited by Melissa J. Brown, attempts to rehabilitate the concept of culture from the depravations of postmodernism by reestablishing the relevance of evolutionary science. But it does not attempt to explain postmodernism's phenomenal success in anthropology, history, and other disciplines in which the study of culture is forefront. "Evolutionary science" includes cognitivism, which, like postmodernism and the re…
Le Pénis géant Le frère de la mère dans les Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée
Gillison Gillian. Le Pénis géant Le frère de la mère dans les Hautes Terres de Nouvelle-Guinée. In: L'Homme, 1986, tome 26 n°99. pp. 41-69
Incest and the Atom of Kinship: The Role of the Mother's Brother in a New Guinea Highlands Society
Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society. Maria Lepowsky
L'anthropologie psychanalytique. Un paradigme marginal
Gillison Gillian. L'anthropologie psychanalytique. Un paradigme marginal. In: L'Homme, 1999, tome 39 n°149. Anthropologie psychanalytique. pp. 43-52
From Cannibalism to Genocide: The Work of Denial
In Cannibal Talk, Gananath Obeyesekere sets out to expose cannibalism as racist slander and anthropologists' perpetuation of a mistaken sense of "identity." In the very act of denying its existence, however, he employs it as sheep's clothing for the beast of genocide and other atrocities, implying that they, too, can be classified as slander or treated as aberrations outside the bounds of social rules or analysis. In claiming to deconstruct centu…
Culture-A Post-Concept
Explaining Culture Scientifically, edited by Melissa J. Brown, attempts to rehabilitate the concept of culture from the depravations of postmodernism by reestablishing the relevance of evolutionary science. But it does not attempt to explain postmodernism's phenomenal success in anthropology, history, and other disciplines in which the study of culture is forefront. "Evolutionary science" includes cognitivism, which, like postmodernism and the re…
The ‘Dividual Androgyne’ and Me: A Personal Affair
In the 25 years since Marilyn Strathern published The Gender of the Gift (1988) its signature concepts of the ‘dividual androgyne’ and ‘sociality’ have received almost no criticism in the anthropological literature and are now widely accepted as true. The ‘dividual’ is considered to be ‘a new, non‐unitary model of embodiment and ... one of the most important theoretical accomplishments to emerge from Melanesian ethnography in the latter part of t…
Whatever Happened to the Mother? A New Look at the Old Problem of the Mother's Brother in Three New Guinea Societies: Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul
Kinship systems cannot be analysed as straightforward translations of the ‘facts of nature’ when those facts are limited to the production of a child by a heterosexual couple. Based upon analyses of three New Guinea societies (Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul), I suggest that kinship systems take account – often by denying – certain ‘facts’ of human reproduction when those facts are extended beyond coitus and parturition to include both the very long per…
She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women: A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Totem and Taboo in the New Guinea Highlands: The Collusion of Sisters and Brothers
Gillian Gillison revisits her classic ethnographic study of the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on their myths and rituals surrounding cannibalism, particularly as they relate to the complex interplay between brothers and sisters. She explores the symbolic significance of consuming "rubbish" (including the bodies of the deceased) as a means of containing pollution and maintaining social order. Gillison argues that Gimi…
‘Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia ( PNG )’ by Jadran Mimica
Jadran Mimica presents the ‘life‐world’ of Yagwoia people of Papua New Guinea as a unique variant of the Jungian Ouroboric archetype, a primal pattern or symbol derived from the ancient Greek ‘tail devourer’ (the serpent that eats its own tail), found in many cultures and individual unconscious phantasies. Treated in terms of ‘ouroboric dialectics’, relations between Yagwoia father and son are hostile, even patricidal, because the son's very exis…
She speaks her anger: Myths and conversations of Gimi women
Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · New guinea (5 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 works)