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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 ethical integrity and precedence rest.
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Roy Wagner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. The classic "The Invention of Culture (1975; 1981) is one of a half-dozen highly regarded works of ethnography and theory by Wagner.
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0691094217
- ISBN 13 9780691094212
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages262
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Physical description: 238 pages : plates : 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index. Contents: Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Barok Phonology -- One. Bakan Village -- Two. The Barok World -- Three. Moiety and Relationship: The Core of Kastam -- Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance -- Five. A Tadak -- Six. Pidik and Power -- Seven. The Icon of Containment -- Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship -- Nine. Conclusion -- Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter. Subjects: Barok (Papua New Guinean people); Ethnic Studies Native American Studies; Public Policy Cultural Policy; Anthropology Cultural; Popular Culture; Ethnology Papua New Guinea New Ireland; Barok language Texts; Papua New Guinea New Ireland Barok Anthropological perspectives. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 391256
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