Ceremonial Houses of the Abelam Papua New Guinea: Architecture and Ritual-Passage to the Ancestors
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ISBN-13:
9781863333443
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.06.2019
Seiten:
290
Autor:
Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin
Gewicht:
813 g
Format:
254x178x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The ceremonial houses of the Abelam people (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea), rank as architectual masterpieces. This book offers a unique documentation of the architecture of the different styles of ceremonial houses according to region, their mode of constuction and the impressice facade paintings. It goes on to explain the social networks responsible for the construction and maintenance, and crucial agents of social information. The author presents an extensive description and analysis of Abelam society at a time when the people were still building ceremonial houses, staging initiations and sacrificing pigs.
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