To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain - Couverture souple

University Of Wisconsin Press

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299140946 ISBN 13 : 9780299140946

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Maschio received his Ph.D. in anthropology from McMaster University and his M.A. from New York University. He has taught at the American Museum of Natural History and New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299140946
• ISBN 13: 9780299140946
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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