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Asiwinarong : ethos, image, and social power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland / Roy Wagner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Roy, 1938- author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Princeton legacy library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barok (Papua New Guinean people).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1986]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast" of that cycle, is invoked by the word "asiwinarong," which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Barok Phonology
- One. Bakan Village
- Two. The Barok World
- Three. Moiety and Relationship: The Core of Kastam
- Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance
- Five. A Tadak
- Six. Pidik and Power
- Seven. The Icon of Containment
- Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship
- Nine. Conclusion
- Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 231-234.
- ISBN:
- 9781400861033
- 1400861039
- OCLC:
- 1013947988
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