Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 288 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA February 18, 1999
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0198233760
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198233763
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
"Telban's study is a fascinatingdiscourse on the cosmology of the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari."--Choice
Product Description
Dancing Through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit things, rituals, and dances.