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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      30 June 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511753084
      9780521105385
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753084
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology, Anthropology
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology, Anthropology
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    Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. Using a rigourous structuralist approach to interpret in a consistent and systematic way the principal meanings and social practices of this South Seas way of life, Mark Mosko provides a convincing portrayal of Bush Mekeo culture and society as a unified, coherent and logical 'whole'. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected. Beginning with native symbolic constructions of space and time, Professor Mosko carefully unfolds the associated beliefs and practices pertaining to the body, to the relations between genders, to the system of social organisation and to the dramatic and resplendent Bush Mekeo mortuary ceremonial.

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