Asiwinarong : : Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland / / Roy Wagner.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1986 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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