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Cosmologies in the Making

Name: Cosmologies in the Making
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521387354
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A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea

Autor: Fredrik Barth

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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All culture, particularly that of non-literate traditions, is constantly being recreated, and in the...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Fredrik Barth

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1990

strony

112

EAN

9780521387354

ISBN

0521387353

Enbook ID

02029216

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

196

Wymiary

155 x 230 x 7

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All culture, particularly that of non-literate traditions, is constantly being recreated, and in the process also undergoes changes. In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses in particular on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share similar material and ecological conditions, and similar languages. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of change, based on his close empirical observation of the processes of cultural transmission. This model emphasises the role of individual creativity in cultural reproduction and change, and maintains that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if they are regarded as knowledge in the process of communication, embedded in social organization, rather than as fixed bodies of belief. From the model he derives various theoretically grounded hypotheses regarding the probable courses of change that would be generated by such mechanisms. He then goes on to show that these hypotheses fit the actual patterns of variation that are found among the Ok.