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Chapter 2: Society - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 2: Society
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“For the Ga’anda people…, customary politics centred on marriage.” (73)
Gift -giving by families of men and extensive scarification of girls for arranged marriages
Scars linked girl to status and identity of being a wife
“Whatever else she was, the scarified woman was an embodiment of the Ga’anda way of life, of conformity to its order…” (74)
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Samoan tattoo form pe’a for men, malu for women
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Complex social hierarchy
“The Samoan system was bewilderingly complex, and provided not for a class of chiefs or kings but for a dispersed structure of chiefly titles that were ranked, some carrying authority over a group as small as a household, others over districts and successively greater and more inclusive entities.”(78)
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Tattoo as a form in armor in warring societies, such as Polynesia
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“Some of the most remarkable forms of adornment created by human beings in any part of the world are still employed on ceremonial occasions by the large populations of the New Guinea Highlands.” (81)
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In the turbulent social environment of the HIghlands, compelling displays were reckoned to act as a deterrent to the ambitions of rival and enemy clans.” (91)
Nudism has not always been a minority lifestyle choice; it also has a history as a more overtly ideological movement.” (91)
Naturalists and Nazis
Art on, of, and via the body has mediated political ideologies and revolutionary gestures in a variety of ways and in different places and times.” (93)
Public executions, such as in France
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