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Dancing through Time

A Sepik Cosmology

Author: Borut Telban   Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dancing through Time
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Dancing through Time presents an analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit-things, rituals, and dances.

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Dancing through Time presents an analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit-things, rituals, and dances.

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Dancing through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit-things, rituals, and dances. In addition to its descriptive value, the book offers a fresh theoretical approach to the study of Melanesian cultures.

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Critic Reviews

“"Telban's study is a fascinating...discourse on the cosmology of the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari."--Choice”

`a fascinating though difficult discourse on the cosmology of the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari.'B M du Toit, Choice,

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Slovene Academy of Sciences & Arts

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Dancing through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit-things, rituals, and dances. In addition to its descriptive value, the book offers a fresh theoretical approach to the study of Melanesian cultures.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
17th December 1998
Pages
288
ISBN
9780198233763

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