To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain by Thomas Maschio

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To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain

Thomas Maschio

272 pages paperback 1994

1 edition

nonfiction sociology medium-paced
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As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Thomas Maschio shows that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression, and invention of th...

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