Name: Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Author: Fredrik Barth
ISBN: 9780521342797

by Fredrik Barth

Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

by Fredrik Barth

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ISBN-13: 9780521342797
ISBN: 0521342791
Publication Date: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Fredrik Barth

SUMMARY

In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs.Fredrik Barth is the author of 'Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)', published 1987 under ISBN 9780521342797 and ISBN 0521342791.

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