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Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.

Manambu (Papua New Guinea people) --- Manambu (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Politics and government --- Social life and customs --- Politique et gouvernement --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Avatip (Papua New Guinea) --- Avatip (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Manambu (Papua New Guinean people) --- Politics and government. --- Social life and customs. --- Manambu (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Avatip (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- Papuans --- Awatip (Papua New Guinea) --- Awatib (Papua New Guinea) --- Manambu (Papua New Guinean people) - Politics and government. --- Manambu (Papua New Guinean people) - Social life and customs. --- Avatip (Papua New Guinea) - Social life and customs

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Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings between grammar and gesture when people speak. Studying how speakers express negation multi modally in a range of social and professional contexts, Harrison explores how and when people gesture, what people achieve linguistically and discursively with their gestures, and why we find similar uses of gesture in different languages (including spoken and signed language). Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book is an important reference for any researcher interested in the relation between language, gesture, and cognition. Bridges the theoretical and empirical gap between gesture research and grammatical analysis Offers a model to account for gestures cross-linguistically including English, French and Chinese as well as gesture in signed language linguistics Illustrated examples of gestures are provided to help readers follow the argument and analysis

Psycholinguistics --- Sign language --- Grammar --- Semiotics --- Speech and gesture --- English language --- Negatives --- English language - Negatives

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Group identity --- Social groups --- Social conflict --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Cognition and culture --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- Social conflict --- Identité collective --- Groupes, Dynamique des --- Conflits sociaux --- Ressemblance (Philosophie) --- Cognition et culture --- Psychologie sociale --- Identité collective --- Conflits sociaux

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