| Description |
1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Series |
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific |
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Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Chanted Tales in the New Guinea Highlands of Today: A Comparative Study; 3 Duna Pikono: A Popular Contemporary Genre in the Papua New Guinea Highlands; 4 'Our Heart Always Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': Sacred Songs and the Revitalization of Indigenous Religion Among the Indonesian Ngaju; 5 Calling on the Ancestors to Stop Crime: Ritual Performance in an Age of Intermittent Violence |
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6 The Camera is Working: Paiwan Aesthetics and Performances in Taiwan7 The Aesthetics of Politics: Transforming Genres and Meanings in Melanesia; 8 Melpa Songs and Ballads: Junctures of Sympathy and Desire in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea; 9 Emphatic Speech, Expressive Genres, and the Dancing-Songs of the Eipo and Yalenang (Eastern Mountains of West Papua); Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stewart, Pamela J
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Stewart, Dr Pamela J
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Strathern, Professor Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781351937542 |
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1351937545 |
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