Cosmos and Society in Oceania (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: De Coppet, Daniel; Iteanu, Andre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040290897
• Artikelnr.: 72267185

Autorenporträt

Daniel de Coppet Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,Paris Andre Iteanu Charge de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: D. de Coppet and A. Iteanu, Introduction: - D. de Coppet, Shared Authority: The Notion of Big Man in the Solomon Islands - A. Gell, Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual - G. Lewis, Revealed by Illness: The Gnau People's World and Some of its Risks - E. Hirsch, The 'Holding Together' of Ritual: Ancestrality and Achievement in the Papuan Highlands - A. Iteanu, Ritual and Ancestors: On the Identity of Supernatural Beings - L. Josephides, Putting Back the Markers: Symbolic Analysis and Political Action in Melanesia - D. Monnerie, On 'Grand-Mothers', 'Grand-Fathers' and 'Ancestors': Conceptualizing the Cosmos in Mono Alu - N. Munn, Symbolic Constructions of Memory: Three Melanesian Cases - C. Toren, Cosmogonic Aspects of Desire and Compasion in Fiji - A. Weiner, Keeping-While-Giving: The Incest Taboo and Gender