Simon J. Harrison

Stealing People's Names

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780521385046
• ISBN-10: 0521385040
• Artikelnr.: 24338197

Inhaltsangabe

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.