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Dancing through Time

A Sepik Cosmology

Borut Telban author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:17th Dec '98

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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. In addition to its descriptive value, the book offers a fresh theoretical approach to the study of Melanesian cultures.

Telban's considerations of temporality are stimulating. * The Contemporary Pacific *
Solid ethnographic contribution. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
A fascinating though difficult discourse on the cosmology of the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari. * Choice *

ISBN: 9780198233763

Dimensions: 242mm x 161mm x 21mm

Weight: 632g

288 pages