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Sago, 33 -34, 162 , 165 , 297 n. 8;

description of processing, 45 ;

sago sickness, 76 ;

sago songs, 131 -135 (see also Poetry);

origin of honamo variety, 274 -276

Sahlins, M., 138 , 149 -150

Sa Pork Exchange (Sa aend wiya ), northern origin of, 22 . See also Dawa

Saussure, F. de, 122 -123

Schieffelin, E. L., 22 , 134 -135

Schismogenesis, 208

Scrotum, 254 -255, 257

Seasonal Variation, 34 -40, 296 , 304 n. 5;

Mauss and Evans-Pritchard on, 37 ;

conceptualization of by Foi, 38 -40

Secrecy: as an effect of tropic symbolization, 14 ;

and origin of pearl shells, 278 -279

Semen, 41 , 66 , 117 , 156 , 299 n. 4;

role in conception, 50

Semiotic, and definition of culture, 6 -11, 138 , 150

Sexual Intercourse, 50 -51, 53 , 161 , 168 , 180 -181, 237 , 239 , 303 n. 1;

and dreams, 70 ;

vs. subsistence activities, 168 ;

and nurturance, 205 -208;

and oral insemination, 173 -178

Sexuality, 251 , 252 ;

obviation of male sexuality, 292

Sickness: menstrual contamination, 54 ;

originating in act of incest, 57 ;

Usi healing cult, 56 -62;

and food taboos, 61 ;

analogy with intersexual mediation, 60 ;

and skin, 72 ;

Usane sicknesses, 76 -77;

maternal and cross-cousin sickness, 113 , 117 -119, 161 ;

and widows, 114 , 116

Sign, 10 , 122 -124

Sillitoe, P., 56 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 69 , 268 , 299 n. 5, 300 n. 11, 304 n. 1

Sister-Exchange, 105 -106, 218 -221, 238 -241, 250 , 252 , 292

Sister-in-Law, 195 -198, 256 , 303 n. 8

Sisters, 199 -204, 211 -218, 218 -221, 258

Sister's Child, 201 -203, 227 -230, 233 , 258 ;

as yams runners, 221 -224. See also Mother's Brother

Skin, 68 , 220 ;

and shell wealth, 72 , 114 -116;

"Fastening the Skin" (cross-cousin exchanges), 117 -121, 302 n. 21;

and maternal illness, 118 ;

of pearl shell, 281 -282

Sky: as home of marsupials, 39 , 49 , 304 n. 5;

as land of the dead, 243 -247

Sociality, 2 -4, 8 , 121 , 139 , 284 ;

and myth, 16 ;

summating image of Foi sociality, 172 , 288 , 296

Social Structure: and myth, 5 ;

contrast between culture and social structure, 3 , 7

Sorcery, 51 -54, 59 , 60 ;

analogy with Usi cult, 56 , 60 -61;

structural relationship with kara'o tree oil, 67 -68

Spatial Orientation, 46 -50;

and origin of illness, 57

Strathern, A., 42 , 55 , 72 , 80 , 87 , 116 , 126 , 129 , 136 , 279 , 299 n. 4, 300 n. 6, 300 n. 5, 301 n. 11

Strathern, M., 4 , 72 , 129 , 299 n. 4, 301 n. 11, 304 n. 2

Structuralism: in symbolic analysis, 11 -13;

structural analysis of Usi cult, 60 -61;

and obviation, 154 -172, 290 , 295

Subsistence: description of Foi system, 33 -40;

male and female roles in, 43 -46;

and magic, 152 ;

in myth, 157 -160 passim , 259

Substitution: as property of metaphor, 9 ;

as feature of tropic construction, 122 -137 passim

Sunset, 47 -48

Symbolic Analysis, 5 , 15 , 285

Syntagmatic Associations, 123 -125;

vs. figurative associations, 138 . See also Lexical Signification