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Author:
Rio, Knut Mikjel.
Title:
The power of perspective : social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio.
Publisher:
Berghahn Books,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xviii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Ethnology--Ambrym.--Ambrym.
Kinship--Ambrym.--Ambrym.
Rites and ceremonies--Ambrym.--Ambrym.
Ceremonial exchange--Ambrym.--Ambrym.
Ambrym (Vanuatu)--Social life and customs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Kinship and sand drawing -- The totalising third party -- The spirals of marriage -- Of yams and men -- The intentionality of ceremonial agency -- Displaying life after death -- The phenomenology of Ambrym exchange -- Conclusions: Denying the gift.
ISBN:
1845452933 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781845452933 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)85830691
LCCN:
2007008597
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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