Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical Description; xi, 99 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Summary; 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. Subjects; Case studies. Culture diffusion. Culture diffusion Case studies. Ethnology Papua New Guinea. Manners and customs. New Guinea Society - Anthropological perspectives. Ok (Papua New Guinean people) Religion. Ok (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea Social life and customs. Rites and ceremonies Papua New Guinea. Social change. Social change Case studies. Social change Papua New Guinea. 1 Kg. N� de ref. del art�culo 424796

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T�tulo: Cosmologies in the making : a generative ...

Editorial: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

A�o de publicaci�n: 1987

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Changes in cosmological traditions among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea.

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