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

Roy Wagner

262 pages • first pub 1986 (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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