Overview
- Offers a nuanced psychological ethnography grounded in the correspondences between Gimi myths and rituals and Freud’s theory of the Primal Crime
- Adopts a novel approach, which stands as critique of current anthropological discourses on mythopoeia, kinship, gender, personhood, and human sociality
- Provides new insights into the contested relationship between men’s and women’s understandings of the world they share
Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The result of decades of fieldwork, writing and reflection, this book offers an analysis of Gimi women’s complex understanding of their situation and presents a nuanced picture of women in a society dominated by men. It represents an important contribution to New Guinea ethnography that will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, gender studies, and cultural, social and psychoanalytic anthropology.
Reviews
“Gillian Gillison’s new monograph is based on her long-term field research among the Gimi people of the Eastern Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea. … Gillison produced an outstanding empirical ethnographic corpus in publications that combine superb ethnographic information and a systematic psychoanalytic interpretive framework pivoting on Freud’s foundational texts and seminal insights. Without doubt, She Speaks Her Anger represents a new threshold of Gillison’s ethnographic and theoretical research and thought.” (Jadran Mimica, Ethos, Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Vol. 51 (1), March, 2023)
“This great book was a pleasure to read because it explores how the violent aspect of humanity exists alongside its loving aspects. It would interest anthropologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts but also those studying and teaching on gender, sexuality, power, and philosophies of embodiment.” (Andrew Lattas, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Vol. 46 (2), June, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gillian Gillison is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women
Book Subtitle: A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Authors: Gillian Gillison
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49352-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49351-6Published: 13 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49354-7Published: 14 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49352-3Published: 12 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 290
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Anthropology, Gender Studies