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Imacoqwa’s Arrow: On the Biunity of the Sun and Moon in a Papuan Lifeworld - Couverture souple

Mimica, Jadran

 
9781912808748: Imacoqwa’s Arrow: On the Biunity of the Sun and Moon in a Papuan Lifeworld
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ISBN 10 : 1912808749 ISBN 13 : 9781912808748
Editeur : HAU, 2025

Synopsis

A pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts.

In Imacoqwa’s Arrow, Jadran Mimica draws on decades of field research to bring us a rich ethnographic account of myth and meaning in the lifeworlds of the Yagwoia of Papua New Guinea. He focuses especially on the relations of the sun and the moon in Yagwoia understandings of the universe and their own place within it. This is classic terrain in Melanesian ethnography, but Mimica does much more than add to the archive of anthropological accounts of the significance of the sun and the moon for peoples of this part of the world. With extraordinary rigor and reflexivity, he grounds his understanding of Yagwoia concepts in psychoanalytic and phenomenological methods that afford a radically new and revealing translation of these seminal themes in Melanesian mythology and its poetics. This is a major contribution to the hermeneutics of ethnographic translation and theorization.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jadran Mimica is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems and of many contributions to psychoanalytic anthropology and Melanesian ethnography.

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Éditeur
HAU
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1912808749
ISBN 13 
9781912808748
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
242
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