To Remember The Faces Of The Dead: The Plentitude Of Memory In Southwestern New Britain...
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To Remember The Faces Of The Dead: The Plentitude Of Memory In Southwestern New Britain (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)
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ISBN: 0299140946
Author: Maschio, Thomas
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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.
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