The Heart of the Pearl Shell

  Foreword
  Acknowledgments
  Orthography

  Chapter I  Introduction
 expand sectionChapter II  The Ethnographic Setting
 expand sectionChapter III  The Responsibility of Males
 expand sectionChapter IV  Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi Sociality
 expand sectionChapter V  The Solicitude of Affines
 expand sectionChapter VI  Metaphor and Substitution
 expand sectionChapter VII  Obviation and Myth
 expand sectionChapter VIII  Intersexual Mediation
 expand sectionChapter IX  Female Reproductivity
 expand sectionChapter X  The Anxiety of Affines
 expand sectionChapter XI  Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity
  Chapter XII  The Hidden Myth

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionReferences
 expand sectionIndex

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