Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland by Roy Wagner

Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland

Roy Wagner

280 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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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 o...

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