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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)
Cosmologies in the Making A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Fredrik Barth
In examining the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, this book offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the O...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521387354
ISBN-10: 0521387353
Publication Date: 1/26/1990
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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