Cosmos and society in Oceania / edited by Daniel de Coppet and André Iteanu.
Contributor(s): Coppet, Daniel de
| Iteanu, André
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 1995.Description: vi, 338p. ; 22cm.ISBN: 185973037X| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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British Museum | Royal Anthropological Institute | Open Shelves | KX [COP-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | L65562 |
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Includes bibl. references.
Contents: Closure and multiplication: an essay on Polynesian cosmology and ritual / A. Gell; Cosmogonic aspects of desire and compassion in Fiji / C. Toren; An essay on the symbolic construction of memory in the Kaluli Gisalo / N.D. Munn; On "grandmothers", "grandfathers" and ancestors: conceptualizing the universe in Mono-Alu, Solomon Islands / D. Monnerie; Rituals and ancestors / A. Iteaunu; Revealed by illness: aspects of the Gnau people's world / Gilbert Lewis; Replacing cultural markers: symbolic analysis and political action in Melanesia / L. Josephides; The "holding together" of ritual: ancestrality and achievement in the Papuan highlands / E. Hirsch; 'Are'are society: a Melanesian socio-cosmic point of view / D. de Coppet; The sibling incest taboo: Polynesian cloth and reproduction / A.B. Weiner.