Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries
LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology

Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries

Umeda Society, Language and Ritual Volume 51

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Publisher Description

In this substantial book, Gell guides the reader systematically through an analysis of the social structure, language and ritual of the Umedia-Punda connubium of the West Sepik district. One of the central areas explored is the ida fertitility ritual and the decipherment and the unravelling of symbolic relationships between words of similar construction. One one side is the anaylsis on the temporal sequence of events (or ritual roles) metamorphosing the casswary (nature) into the 'new man' (culture) and the on other side, the associated 'harmonic levels' which allude to body painting, choreography and social status. His approach substantiates the view that the ritual is not so much about the establishing of linear causality in the relationship between a society and its environment, but with the 'an act of poetic legislation over the course of nature'.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2020
9 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
386
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
11.4
MB

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