Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Ch. 1: The "Baining Problem" Ch. 2: The Ethnographic Setting Ch. 3: History Ch. 4: Kinship, Adoption, and the Production of Society Ch. 5: The Life Cycle and Socialization Ch. 6: Sentiments and Motivation in the Social Person Ch. 7: Death and Social Reproduction Ch. 8: Baining Dances Ch. 9: Ta Takmut Banas: The Asarai Dance Ch. 10: Atut Ch. 11: Anarchy as Structured Antistructure Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index