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Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Barth, Fredrik (Universitetet i Oslo)
Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Barth, Fredrik (Universitetet i Oslo)
In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs.
112 pages, 1 half-tone, 1 line diagram, 1 map
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 26, 1990 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521387354 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 112 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 230 × 7 mm · 196 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Fortes, Meyer |
| Series Editor | Goody, Jack |
| Series Editor | Leach, Edmund |
| Series Editor | Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja |