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Fluid Ontologies: Myth, Ritual, and Philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Autor C. Ballard, Laurence R. Goldman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 1998 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Myths are best understood as a convergence of voices from across times and cultures. They are the instruments through which authors and audiences seek to grapple with questions about the fundamental nature of the universe. The answers, however, constantly change in light of changing circumstances such as the interface between western and non-western cultures, or cataclysmic events. The authors argue that these societies' worldviews assume that the process of flow between events, rather than the nature of the events, is critical to a model of human sociality.Boundaries, whether of a ritual, physical, or social nature, are perceived as constantly broken by the exchange of ideas across time, space, and peoples. Our understanding of such issues as gender relations and the body, social change, imagination, play, and the conceptualization of power is furthered by probing how it is that myth is both expressive as well as constitutive of human thought on these topics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780897895576
ISBN-10: 0897895576
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

L.R. GOLDMAN is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland, Australia.C. BALLARD is Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Cuprins

Preface by C. Ballard and L.R. GoldmanIntroduction: Fire and Water: Fluid Ontologies in Melanesian Myths by L.R. Goldman, J. Duffield and C. BallardHand, Voice and Myth in Papua New Guinea by J.F. WeinerSacrifice and Sociality: A Duna Ritual Track by A. StrathernSacrifice and Regeneration Among Ipilis: The View from Tipini by A. BiersackThe Sun by Night: Huli Moral Topography and Myths of a Time of Darkness by C. BallardA Trickster for All Seasons: The Huli Iba Tiri by L.R. GoldmanMyths of Containment, Myths of Extension: Creating Relations Across Boundaries by L. JosephidesHow the World Turns Upside Down: Changing Geographies of Power and Spiritual Influence Among the Gebusi by B.M. KnaufIndex