Pig's Teeth and Skull Cycles
Both Sides of the Face of Humanity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2465744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane C Goodale (Bryn Mawr College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 228-244 |
| Publication date | 1985-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1985.12.2.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2129651009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 16 |
Pigs are a multivocal key symbol in Kaulong definition of humanity. According to individual behavior both pigs and people are placed along a continuum marked at one extreme by that which is characteristic of the inhuman "wild boar," and at the other by that characteristic of the "ideally human" person of renown. The essential and continuous interdependence of pigs and people in order to maintain humanity in an otherwise inhuman world is explored in depth and in both ritual and nonritual contexts, extending our understanding of the meaning of pigs in Papua New Guinea beyond that of transactable symbols of wealth and power and as elements in ritual ecology. [pigs, humanity, social identity, Melanesia, death rituals
Aesthetics · Biology · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Humanity · Identity (music · Key (lock · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |