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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.
Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) --- Bush Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) --- Mekeo (Papua New Guinea people) --- Ethnology --- Papuans --- Papua New Guinea --- Social life and customs. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology
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Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-conceptualizations recasts accepted notions about magic and selfhood. Drawing on accounts by Mekeo ritual experts and laypersons, this is the first book to demonstrate magic's profound role in creating the self. It also argues convincingly that dream reporting provides a natural context for self-reflection. In presenting its data, the book develops the concept of "autonomous imagination" into a new theoretical framework for exploring subjective imagery processes across cultures.
Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) --- Philosophy, Mekeo --- Magic, Mekeo --- Ethnopsychology --- Self (Philosophy) --- Dreams --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- Dreaming --- Subconsciousness --- Visions --- Sleep --- Philosophy --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Mekeo magic --- Mekeo philosophy --- Bush Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) --- Mekeo (Papua New Guinea people) --- Ethnology --- Papuans --- Rites and ceremonies --- Dreams. --- Magic, Mekeo. --- Philosophy, Mekeo. --- Psychology. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Papua New Guinea --- Social life and customs.
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