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Malanggan: Art, Memory and Sacrifice (Materializing Culture)
Malanggan Art Memory and Sacrifice - Materializing Culture
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Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003Malanggan 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 'sk... more »
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Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003Malanggan 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 'sk... more »
ISBN-13: 9781859736227
ISBN-10: 185973622X
Publication Date: 11/1/2002
Pages: 256
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 185973622X
Publication Date: 11/1/2002
Pages: 256
Rating: ?
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Genres:
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Anthropology >> Cultural
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Anthropology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Customs & Traditions
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
