Author: WAGNER, ROY.
Title: Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 186; 6 pages of b/w. photographic plates, 2 maps, several tables, 8 illustrative figures, bibliography, index, bound in original embossed cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. The University of Chicargo Press; 1996. The author conceives of culture as an open-ended, continually developing sequences of events. "The conceptual basis of a culture can never be summed up as a logical ordering, or a closed system, of internally consistent propositions." metaphoric innovation is inevitable. The Author observations on the Daribi provide a compelling demonstration of this theory, one that places him at the forefront of the rapidly growing field of symbolic anthropology.
Keywords: Papua New Guinea History Culture
Title: Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 186; 6 pages of b/w. photographic plates, 2 maps, several tables, 8 illustrative figures, bibliography, index, bound in original embossed cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. The University of Chicargo Press; 1996. The author conceives of culture as an open-ended, continually developing sequences of events. "The conceptual basis of a culture can never be summed up as a logical ordering, or a closed system, of internally consistent propositions." metaphoric innovation is inevitable. The Author observations on the Daribi provide a compelling demonstration of this theory, one that places him at the forefront of the rapidly growing field of symbolic anthropology.
Keywords: Papua New Guinea History Culture
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 124686
- Book number: 124686