Karavar : : Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual / / Frederick Karl Errington.
This interpretation of the cultural and social life of the inhabitants of a small island in the territory of Papua and New Guinea offers important new perspectives for the study of other societies. Focusing on Karavaran society's preoccupation with achieving stability, Mr. Errington first descr...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Symbol, Myth and Ritual
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Art of Being Free -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Making Space for Politics -- 2. Disturbing Democracy: Reading (in) the Gaps between Tocqueville's America and Ours -- 3. (Con)Founding Democracy: Containment, Evasion, Appropriation -- 4. Reading Freedom, Writing Marx: From the Politics of Production to the Production of Politics -- 5. Acting (Up) in Publics: Mobile Spaces, Plural Worlds -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | This interpretation of the cultural and social life of the inhabitants of a small island in the territory of Papua and New Guinea offers important new perspectives for the study of other societies. Focusing on Karavaran society's preoccupation with achieving stability, Mr. Errington first describes the principal relationships among men and between men and women. He then turns to ritual activities, where the Karavarans find answers to the fundamental questions about power and social order that arise in their nonritual life. With particular stress on the masked figures of the mortuary ceremony, he analyzes the meaning of the symbols and their effectiveness in a ritual context. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501734274 9783110536171 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610130 9783110606485 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501734274 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Frederick Karl Errington. |