256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Central to funerals in New Ireland, these ‘death' figures are intended to decompose as symbolic representations of the dead. Wrapped in images that are conceived of as ‘skins', they are both visually complex and intriguing. This... Read more
1 Gathering Places, 2 Matriliny in the Making, 3 Sacrifice and Calendrical Rites, 4 Building Up The Fire 5 Images of Malanggan 6 On Binding and Thinking 7 Potent Absence and the Dynamics of Sacrificial Economy
Biography
Susanne Küchler is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University College London.
