Cosmologies in the Making

A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea

By:

Fredrik Barth

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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In examining the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, this book offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share largely similar cultures. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of cultural change, emphasizing the role that individual creativity plays in it, and maintaining that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if they are regarded as knowledge in the process of communication, rather than as fixed bodies of belief.

Release date NZ

January 26th, 1990

Author

Fredrik Barth

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

112

Series

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x7

ISBN-13

9780521387354

Product ID

1975855

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