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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Table of Contents:
- 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