Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands

by Eric Hirsch

Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.

For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not 'history' in a conventional sense. For them, the world and its history derive from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the 'centre of the world'. But Fuyuge people are part of another history, too:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367684918
• ISBN13: 9780367684914
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"