Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland

by Roy Wagner

Book Overview

Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast of that cycle, is invoked by the word asiwinarong, which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691094217
• ISBN13: 9780691094212
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"