| Description |
xvii, 381 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 13 |
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Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 13
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| Contents |
1. The Visible Ordering of Things -- 2. Manifest and Concealed -- 3. From Visible Things: Fieldwork 1969-1971 -- 4. To Hidden Things: Fieldwork 1980-1982 -- 5. A Distinctive Mode of Imagination -- 6. Dreams -- 7. A Hidden Self -- 8. Dreams and Self-Knowledge -- 9. The Traditions of Secret Knowledge -- 10. Two Dream Diviners: Josephina and Janet -- 11. Two Men of Knowledge: Alex and Francis -- 12. Observing a Man of Knowledge: Aisaga -- 13. Learning "Sorcery" Unawares -- 14. The Sorrows of Acquiring Knowledge -- 15. A'aisa's Gifts -- 16. Magic, Self, and Autonomous Imagination |
| Summary |
"Weaving together descriptive ethnography and conventional cultural analysis with narrative accounts, A'aisa's Gifts offers not only an illuminating picture of Mekeo cosmology and perceptions of self but a study with broad implications for anthropologists, psychologists, and scholars of comparative religion." -- Back cover |
| Analysis |
Ethnopsychology |
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Papua New Guinea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and indexes |
| Subject |
Dreams.
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Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea.
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Magic, Mekeo.
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Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology.
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Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Philosophy, Mekeo.
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Self (Philosophy) -- Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
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| LC no. |
94024807 |
| ISBN |
0520087615 |
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0520088298 |
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