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Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea Hardback - 1987

by Fredrik Barth

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In examining the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, this book offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share largely similar cultures. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of cultural change, emphasizing the role that individual creativity plays in it, and maintaining that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if they are regarded as knowledge in the process of communication, rather than as fixed bodies of belief.

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  • Title Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea
  • Author Fredrik Barth
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1987
  • ISBN 9780521342797 / 0521342791
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.47 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.19 cm)
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Social change, Papua New Guinea - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87008001
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.089
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Cambridge University Press, 1987. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9780521342797
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical Description; xi, 99 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Summary; In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Subjects; Case studies. Culture diffusion. Culture diffusion Case studies. Ethnology Papua New Guinea. Manners and customs. New Guinea Society - Anthropological perspectives. Ok (Papua New Guinean people) Religion. Ok (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea Social life and customs. Rites and ceremonies Papua New Guinea. Social change. Social change Case studies. Social change Papua New Guinea.
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