Pigs for the Ancestors : Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People

Foreword vii A. P. Vayda Prefaces, 1968, 1984 xiii Note on Maring Orthography xvii Ritual, Ecology, and Systems 1(7) The Tsembaga 8(24) Relations with the Immediate Environment 32(67) Relations with Other Local Populations 99(54) The Ritual Cycle 153(71) Ritual and the Regulation of Ecological Systems 224(75) Appendices 1. Rainfall 243(1) 2. Soils 244(3) 3. Floristic Composition of Primary Forest 247(5) 4. Estimating Yields per Unit Area 252(4) 5. Energy Expenditure in Gardening 256(7) 6. Secondary Growth 263(7) 7. Commonly Propagated Plants 270(1) 8. Nondomesticated Resources 271(7) 9. Diet 278(7) 10. Carrying Capacity 285(14) Epilogue, 1984 Outline of Contents 299(2) Introduction 301(144) 1. Ecology as Vulgar Materialism 304(4) 2. Economism, Ecologism, and Logos 308(5) 3. Ecological Principles and Native Understandings 313(18) 4. Ecology Fetishism, Ecological Explanation, and an Ecological Problematic 331(6) 5. Further Discussion of Cognized Models 337(8) 6. Function and Description 345(5) 7. Ecology and the Rationality of Systems 350(3) 8. Fallacy, Final Cause, and Formal Cause 353(9) 9. Systemic Analysis 362(9) 10. Units and Their Implications 371(33) 11. Negative Feedback 404(4) 12. Ritual: Regulated or Regulating? 408(3) 13. Transformation 411(21) 14. Objective and Subjective Principles in Anthropology 432(4) 15. The Ecology of Explanation 436(9) Appendix II. Nutrition in Pigs for the Ancestors 445(36) Bibliography for the 1968 Edition 481(7) Supplementary Bibliography for the 1984 Edition 488(9) Index 497