Dancing through Time: A Sepik Cosmology

by Borut Telban

Overview

Dancing Through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit things, rituals, and dances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198233763
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/18/1999
Series:	Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1250L (what's this?)

About the Author

Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Ambonwari: The Way of the Village2. Person, Time, and Identity3. Social Institutions4. Kinship and Marriage5. Myth and Identity6. Spirits7. Transformation and PresentationConclusionBibliographyGlossary

Editorial Reviews

"Telban's study is a fascinating...discourse on the cosmology of the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari."—Choice

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