Dancing Through Time. A Sepik Cosmology.
by Telban, Borut:
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- ISBN 10
- 0198233760
- ISBN 13
- 9780198233763
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-Clarendon Press, 1998-. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. First edition. xvii+270 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. 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. Dancing Through Time. A Sepik Cosmology. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Papua New Guinea oxbridge 0198233760
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- Title
- Dancing Through Time. A Sepik Cosmology.
- Author
- Telban, Borut:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198233760
- ISBN 13
- 9780198233763
- Publisher
- -Clarendon Press, 1998-
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- January 22, 1999
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