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Quadripartite Structures: Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo
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Quadripartite Structures: Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture Hardcover - 1985

by Mark S. Mosko


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Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. Using a rigourous structuralist approach to interpret in a consistent and systematic way the principal meanings and social practices of this South Seas way of life, Mark Mosko provides a convincing portrayal of Bush Mekeo culture and society as a unified, coherent and logical 'whole'. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected. Beginning with native symbolic constructions of space and time, Professor Mosko carefully unfolds the associated beliefs and practices pertaining to the body, to the relations between genders, to the system of social organisation and to the dramatic and resplendent Bush Mekeo mortuary ceremonial.

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  • Title Quadripartite Structures: Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture
  • Author Mark S. Mosko
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition.
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York
  • Date 1985-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521264525 / 0521264529
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 1.06 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.69 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84019906
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.089
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