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.
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Borut Telban is a Research Fellow at Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts.
"Telban's study is a fascinating...discourse on the cosmology of the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari."--Choice
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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. Seller Inventory # 14577
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