TY  - BOOK
AU  - Errington,Frederick Karl
TI  - Karavar: Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual 
T2  - Symbol, Myth and Ritual
SN  - 9781501734274
AV  - GN671.D8 .E775 1974
U1  - 301.29953 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Kerawara Island
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: The Art of Being Free --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Making Space for Politics --; 2. Disturbing Democracy: Reading (in) the Gaps between Tocqueville's America and Ours --; 3. (Con)Founding Democracy: Containment, Evasion, Appropriation --; 4. Reading Freedom, Writing Marx: From the Politics of Production to the Production of Politics --; 5. Acting (Up) in Publics: Mobile Spaces, Plural Worlds --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This interpretation of the cultural and social life of the inhabitants of a small island in the territory of Papua and New Guinea offers important new perspectives for the study of other societies. Focusing on Karavaran society's preoccupation with achieving stability, Mr. Errington first describes the principal relationships among men and between men and women. He then turns to ritual activities, where the Karavarans find answers to the fundamental questions about power and social order that arise in their nonritual life. With particular stress on the masked figures of the mortuary ceremony, he analyzes the meaning of the symbols and their effectiveness in a ritual context
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734274
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501734274
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501734274/original
ER  -