Asiwinarong : ethos, image, and social power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland /
Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast" of that cycle, is invoked by the word "asiwinarong," which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1986]
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Colección: | Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Barok Phonology
- One. Bakan Village
- Two. The Barok World
- Three. Moiety and Relationship: The Core of Kastam
- Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance
- Five. A Tadak
- Six. Pidik and Power
- Seven. The Icon of Containment
- Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship
- Nine. Conclusion
- Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter.