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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1082Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1986Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691610924
  • 9781400861033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.089995
LOC classification:
  • DU740.42 -- W32 1986eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Barok Phonology -- One. Bakan Village -- Two. The Barok World -- Three. Moiety and Relationship: The Core of Kastam -- Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance -- Five. A Tadak -- Six. Pidik and Power -- Seven. The Icon of Containment -- Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship -- Nine. Conclusion -- Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Barok Phonology -- One. Bakan Village -- Two. The Barok World -- Three. Moiety and Relationship: The Core of Kastam -- Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance -- Five. A Tadak -- Six. Pidik and Power -- Seven. The Icon of Containment -- Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship -- Nine. Conclusion -- Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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