Recursive dualism in the Admiralty Islands.

Abstract

A pattern of recursive dualism, in which contrasted male and female categories are themselves subdivided further into contrasted male and female categories, runs through the thought of the Admiralty Islanders, especially with regard to kinship and marriage and spatial organization. Detailed similarities between the expression of this pattern in Admiralty Island thought and in Fijian and western Polynesian thought suggest phylogenetic relationships.

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