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Title Fluid ontologies : myth, ritual, and philosophy in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / edited by L.R. Goldman, C. Ballard
Published Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1998

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Description xiv, 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction. Fire and Water: Fluid Ontologies in Melanesian Myth / L. R. Goldman, J. Duffield and C. Ballard -- 1. Hand, Voice and Myth in Papua New Guinea / J. F. Weiner -- 2. Sacrifice and Sociality: A Duna Ritual Track / A. Strathern -- 3. Sacrifice and Regeneration among Ipilis: The View from Tipinini / A. Biersack -- 4. The Sun by Night: Huli Moral Topography and Myths of a Time of Darkness / C. Ballard -- 5. A Trickster for All Seasons: The Huli Iba Tiri / L. R. Goldman -- 6. Myths of Containment, Myths of Extension: Creating Relations across Boundaries / L. Josephides -- 7. How the World Turns Upside Down: Changing Geographies of Power and Spiritual Influence among the Gebusi / B. M. Knauft
Summary In developing regions of the world, understanding how indigenous populations manifest their worldviews is imperative before implementing new social policies. Building on three decades of studies of Melanesia by ethnologists, the authors argue that these societies' worldviews assume that the process of flow between events, rather than the nature of the events, is critical to a model of human sociality
Notes Based on a conference held at the University of Queensland's Emmanuel College in Brisbane, in Sept. 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Congresses.
Mythology -- Papua New Guinea -- Congresses.
Mythology, Papua New Guinea -- Congresses
Mythology, Papuan -- Congresses.
Rites and ceremonies -- Papua New Guinea -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81034915 -- Religious life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007603 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Ballard, Chris, 1963-
Goldman, Laurence.
LC no. 97031517
ISBN 0897895517 (alk. paper)
0897895576 (paperback: alk. paper)