Dancing through Time
A Sepik Cosmology
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