Sunset and Flowers

The Sexual Dimension of Foi Spatial Organization

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ID2963291
AuthorsJames F Weiner (corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume40
Issue4
Pages577-588
Publication date1984-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/jar.40.4.3629798
OpenAlexW2324166990
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This paper analyzes the structure of Foi ideology concerning space and motion. It is argued that to describe Foi spatiality one must not only consider how they symbolically construe cardinality; one must also examine the kinds of motion that link their various points of spatial orientation. This motion is not merely geographic, but also encompasses the social movements represented by marriage, death, and widow remarriage. It is demonstrated that Foi rituals of maiden and widow marriage encompass their spatial orientation and are phrased in the idioms of motion between cardinal points. These cardinal points thus have distinct sexual valences in Foi thought, since their marriage rituals are basically denotative of intersexual definition and mediation

Archaeology · Cardinal direction · Dimension (graph theory · Ideology · Linguistics · Mediation · Motion (physics · Political science · Politics · Pure mathematics · Remarriage · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Mathematics · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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