Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland (Princeton Legacy Library, 1082) - Hardcover

Wagner, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691094217 ISBN 13: 9780691094212

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1986

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Book by Wagner Roy

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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 on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest

Originally published in 1986.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0691094217
• ISBN 13: 9780691094212
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262