Malanggan - Art, Memory and Sacrifice

Informationen zum Autor Susanne Küchler is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University College London. Klappentext Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Gathering Places, 2 Matriliny in the Making, 3 Sacrifice and Calendrical Rites, 4 Building Up The Fire 5 Images of Malanggan 6 On Binding and Thinking 7 Potent Absence and the Dynamics of Sacrificial Economy

Summary

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists.

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Kuchler, Susanne Küchler
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9781859736173
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-617-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Materializing Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); ART / History / General, Anthropology, Art of indigenous peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, History of Art, Relating to indigenous peoples, Physical anthropology, Indigenous styles