Tetum Ghosts and Kin - Softcover

David-hicks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881333204 ISBN 13: 9780881333206

Verlag: Waveland Pr Inc, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

By concentrating on ghosts and kin in this analysis of the symbols employed in the ritual and myth of the Tetum society, Hicks enables readers to understand much of how the worldview of the society relates to its religion. As he himself observes, "When we examine Tetum culture, taking the ritual relationship between ancestral ghosts and their human kin as our starting point, such different spheres as rituals, religious beliefs, kinship practices, oral literature, ecology, and architecture together blend into a single expansive field of study." Thus the book is not only a useful example of symbolic analysis, but it also demonstrates the functional integration of culture that has fascinated anthropologists for at least the past half century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Waveland Pr Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0881333204
• ISBN 13: 9780881333206
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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