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To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain

Name: To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain
SKU: 9780299140946
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ISBN: 9780299140946
Dewey: 306.089995
LCC Number: DU740
Author: Thomas Maschio
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Pages: 245
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After having arrived in New Guinea, on travels to southwestern New Britain by first taking a jet from Port Moresby to Kimbe, a new town that has grown up around a government-sponsored oil palm project. One takes a small plane over the rugged mountain range that cuts across the center of the island of New Britain to Kandrian, where there is a small government station, a mission, and a hospital.

SKU: 9780299140946 Categories: All, Culture, Native American, Poetry, Social Science Tags: Anthropological linguistics, Ethnic identity, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Papua New Guinea, Philosophy Rauto, Rauto (Papua New Guinean people), Rites and ceremonies, Social life and customs, social-science, West New Britain Province, West New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea)

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As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Maschio aims to show that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression and invention of the self.

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Weight	0.79 lbs
Dimensions	9.11 × 6.1 × 0.59 in
Binding Type	Paperback

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