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02188aam a2200385 i 4500 001 9521C206961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180802010035 008 180419s2018 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018005425 020 $a 1611633982 020 $a 9781611633986 035 $a (OCoLC)1030382101 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GSU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GN473 S74 2018 100 1 $a Stewart, Pamela J., $e author. 245 10 $a Diaspora, disasters, and the cosmos : $b rituals and images / $c Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern. 264 1 $a Durham, North Carolina : $b Carolina Academic Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xxii, 112 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Diasporas -- Disaster anthropology -- Transcending violence: the place of ritual -- Fusion shamanism -- Embodied transformation and senses of personhood in the Papua New Guinea highlands -- Concluding remarks. 520 $a Rituals are important in many contexts, including disaster responses. This book explores related topics that are important for the contemporary situations of peoples faced with environmental challenges or disasters, and more generally for their cultural ideas about dancing and decorations as indications of well-being and fertility in their life-patterns. Combining the study of environmental issues with the aesthetics of shamanistic healing and the cosmic significance of ritual practices, Diaspora, disasters, and the cosmos exemplifies the inner-relations of cultural patterns in the lives of indigenous people in the Pacific and elsewhere. 650 0 $a Rites and ceremonies. 650 0 $a Ritual. 650 0 $a Natural disasters $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Shamanism. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples. 700 1 $a Strathern, Andrew, $e author. 830 0 $a Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180905045854.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9521C206961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search