| To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain Contributor(s): Maschio, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299140946 ISBN-13: 9780299140946 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: After having arrived in New Guinea, on travels to southwestern New Britain by first taking a jet from Port Moresby to Kimbe, a new town that has grown up around a government-sponsored oil palm project. One takes a small plane over the rugged mountain range that cuts across the center of the island of New Britain to Kandrian, where there is a small government station, a mission, and a hospital. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.089 |
| LCCN: 93032388 |
| Series: New Directions in Anthropological Writing (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.1" W x 9.11" (0.79 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 the self. Maschio demonstrates how such emotions as nostalgia, anger, sadness, and grief are creatively transformed during the course of religious performance and expression into a form of cultural memory--one that juxtaposes a pattern of cultural meaning with the emotional feeling of plenitude the Melanesian Rauto call makai. Evoked during initiation, mourning, and agricultural rites, and figuring prominently in Rauto discourse about the self, makai joins personal memory to patterned sets of images and meanings that Westerners would call culture. |