Andrew Strathern

Expressive Genres and Historical Change (eBook, PDF)

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan
Redaktion: Stewart, Pamela J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. The contributors have all carried out first-hand fieldwork, often over a period of many years, and they bring their experience to bear on both the aesthetic and the analytical aspects of their materials.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351937559
• Artikelnr.: 48802956

Autorenporträt

Dr Pamela J. Stewart and Professor Andrew Strathern are collaborators who are based in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and they are, respectively, Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham, England. They have been Visiting Research Fellows at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan during 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. They have published many books and articles on their research in the Pacific, Asia, and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Chanted tales in the New Guinea Highlands of today: a comparative study
Alan Rumsey; Duna Pikono: a popular contemporary genre in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; 'Our Heart Always Remembers
We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': sacred songs and the revitalization of Indigenous religion among the Indonesian Ngaju
Anne Schiller; Calling on the ancestors to stop crime: ritual performance in an age of intermittent violence
Janet Hoskins; The camera is working: Paiwan aesthetics and performances in Taiwan
Tai-li Hu; The aesthetics of politics: transforming genres and meanings in Melanesia
Lisette Josephides; Melpa songs and ballads: junctures of sympathy and desire in Mount Hagen
Papua New Guinea
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Emphatic speech
expressive genres
and the dancing-songs of the Eipo and Yalenang (Eastern Mountains of West Papua)
Volker Heeschen; Index.