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Tables of Contents for The Making of Great Men
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction to Baruya society
1
6
Part One Social hierarchies in Baruya society
7
70
Women's subordinate position
9
22
The signs of male domination: bodies, space, gestures
10
1
The place of men and women in their various activities
11
5
Magic in the production processes
16
3
The subordination of women in the production of relations of kinship
19
4
One woman equals one woman
23
5
A last look at the principle of female equivalence
28
3
The institution and legitimization of male superiority: initiations and the separation of the sexes
31
46
The male life cycle
31
9
The woman's life cycle
40
6
Are the women's initiations genuine initiations?
46
5
The Baruya vision of the process of the reproduction of life; the significance of bodily substances
51
12
Female powers and the ambivalence of woman
63
14
Part Two The production of great men: powers inherited, powers merited
77
112
Male hierarchies
79
21
Hereditary status and interlineage hierarchies: the kwaimatnie-owners
81
15
Warriors, shamans, cassowary hunters: status for the taking
96
4
The discovery of great men
100
36
The aoulatta: the great warrior
103
9
The koulaka: the shaman
112
14
The kayareumala: the cassowary hunter
126
4
The tsaimaye: the salt maker
130
6
General view of Baruya social hierarchies
136
5
The nature of man/woman relations among the Baruya: violence and consent, resistance and repression
141
21
Forms of female resistance and rebellion
149
2
Male violence and repression
151
11
Great men societies, big men societies: two alternative logics of society
162
27
The paradigm of the big man
163
26
Part Three Recent transformations of Baruya society
189
36
The colonial order and independence
191
34
Conclusion
225
14
The ventriloquist's dummy
227
12
Bibliography
239
6
Index
245