Author: Wagner, Roy
Title: Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1986). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xxiv,238,(16)p. 16pp photoplates. Minor rubbing, a tear to dustwrapper, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Bakan Village; The Barok World; Moiety & Relationship: The Core of 'Kastam'; The Clan: Exchange & Alliance; A 'Tadak'; 'Pidik' & Power; The Icon of Containment; 'Asiwinarong': Preemptive Successorship; Conclusion; Appendix: Reciprocity & the 'Orong'.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Usen Barok, Ethnography, Ethnology, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Social, Sociology,