Stealing People''s Names - History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology

Zusammenfassung Among the people of Avatip! a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea! the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study! Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual! cosmology and concepts of the person. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Manambu; 2. Avatip; 3. Magic and the totemic cosmology; 4. Ceremonial rank; 5. Male initiation; 6. Treading elder brothers underfoot; 7. The debating system; 8. The rise of the subclan Maliyaw; 9. Symbolic economies in Melanesia; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Simon J. Harrison, Simon J. (University of Ulster) Harrison
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521026475
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02647-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology