Cosmologies in the Making
Subtitle: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780521387354
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Ethnology And Ethnography; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Papua New Guinea; Anthropology - Cultural; Ok (Papua New Guinea people) - Social life an; Ok (Papua New Guinea people) - Social life and customs; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General
First sentence: 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.