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Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action
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by Michael Houseman; Carlo Severi


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  • Title Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action
  • Author Michael Houseman; Carlo Severi
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9789004112209 / 9004112200
  • Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.66 x 6.52 x 1.02 in (24.54 x 16.56 x 2.59 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98022597
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.699

About the author

Michael Houseman is Director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and Head of the Systems of African Thought Centre of the EPHE and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He has published extensively on kinship and on ritual.
Carlo Severi is a Senior Fellow of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Collge de France. He has published papers in the field of symbolic anthropology and is the author of a book on Cuna shamanism (La memoria rituale, 1993).
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Brill, 1998. BRAND NEW BOOK! Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Crisp Clean and Unread. GIFT Quality Item. Hardcover: 325 pages <p> In this work, the author propose a novel theory of ritual action founded upon an in-depth study of the wide variety of behaviors that the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea identify as naven: a transvestism rite studied by Gregory Bateson in the 1930s and documented by other anthropologists since. </p> <p> <br> Ritual performance is shown to involve the construction of complex relational networks entailing the condensation of contradictory modes of relationship in accordance with over-arching interactive forms. </p> <p> <br> In this volume, inquiry into the history of anthropology, detailed ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion are combined. The first part examines Bateson's and others' understandings of naven; the second… Read More
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