Stealing People's Names

Name: Stealing People's Names
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology

Autor: Simon J. Harrison

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Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigiou...

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Autor

Simon J. Harrison

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2006

Pagini

240

EAN

9780521026475

ISBN

0521026474

Enbook ID

02018648

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

381

Dimensiuni

154 x 229 x 16

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Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progrssively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.

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