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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. Trade paperback. Very good.. 98 p., bibliography. . In examining the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, this book offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share largely similar cultures. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of cultural change, emphasizing the role that individual creativity plays in it, and maintaining that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if they are regarded as knowledge in the process of communication, rather than as fixed bodies of belief.
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The great proliferation of ritual forms, cult organizations, and social structures found among the Mountain Ok provides a challenge to anthropological description, explanation, and theory.
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- Title Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea
- Author Fredrik Barth
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- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-01-26
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780521387354 / 0521387353
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
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- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87008001
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.089
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