Wagner Asiwinarong

Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6103-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast" of that cycle, is invoked by the word "asiwinarong," which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest.

Originally published in 1986.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
List of Illustrations and Tables, pg. ix
Prologue, pg. xi
Acknowledgments, pg. xxi
A Note on Barok Phonology, pg. xxiv
One. Bakan Village, pg. 1
Two. The Barok World, pg. 24
Three. Moiety and Relationship: The Core of Kastam, pg. 49
Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance, pg. 79
Five. A Tadak, pg. 99
Six. Pidik and Power, pg. 121
Seven. The Icon of Containment, pg. 146
Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship, pg. 176
Nine. Conclusion, pg. 214
Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong, pg. 223
Glossary, pg. 227
Bibliography, pg. 231
Index, pg. 235