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Book by O'Hanlon, Michael
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- PublisherBritish Museum Publications
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0714115967
- ISBN 13 9780714115962
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages164
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Reading the Skin: Adornment, Display and Society Among the Wahgi
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Condition: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-C-041-02242
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Reading the Skin: Adornment, Display and Society Among the Wahgi
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ISBN 10: 0714115967
ISBN 13: 9780714115962
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Condition: Good. Cover torn Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-Q-025-03213
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hardcover w/ dj. Condition: Sehr gut. 160 Seiten Very good, clean copy - New Guinea Highlanders' traditions of self adornment are amongst the most remarkable in the world. Arrayed in a profusion of valuable plumes and furs, paints and shells, clanspeople dance or parade before critical spectators, rivals and enemies. Anthropologists have frequently referred to these elaborate traditions in passing, and others have admired them as exotic spectacles, but what is their significance for the people themselves? - - In Reading the Skin Dr O'Hanlon answers this question for one Highland people, the Wahgi. In the turbulent social world of the Wahgi the status of much information is regarded as uncertain. What is the true strength of rival clans? Rumours circulate: of betrayals and concealed killings within clans, of long-unsettled debts between them. Issues such as these are felt to undermine the well-being of groups and individuals alike; but are the rumours true or false? - - Dr O'Hanlon's account shows how Wahgi spectators hope to 'read' the answer to such questions in the decorated appearance of the group on display. The elaborate language of the spectators' assessments challenges the accepted notion that New Guinea cultures do not 'verbalise' about their art. The book goes on to analyse the political use that powerful men make of these aesthetic judgements, in a world in which verbal accounts cannot be trusted. - - As an original examination of an indigenous aesthetic system, this book will particularly appeal to those with an interest in the art of other cultures. Anthropologists concerned with Melanesia will be equally attracted by the substantial fresh data which the author presents on this important Highlands people, while the many illustrations (including 16 in colour) will make the work indispensable to ethnographic museums. - - Jacket The apotheosis of the Pig Festival: the consumption of pork fat on top of the bolyim house at the Festival's climax (see also pl. 2). - ISBN 9780714115962 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 788. Seller Inventory # 1256712
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Reading the Skin. Adornment, Display and Society Among the Wahgi.
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ISBN 10: 0714115967
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 164pp, index, bibliography, gloss, num bw & col ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Some foxing to endpapers and prelims, very light edge wear to jacket. New Guinea Highlanders traditions of self-adornment are among the world's most remarkable. Arrayed in a profusion of plumes and furs, paints and shells, clanspeople dance or parade before critical spectators, rivals or enemies. This volume examines the significance of these displays in Wahgi society. Size: Sml 4to. Seller Inventory # 040368
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Reading the Skin: Adornment, Display and Society Among the Wahgi
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. some light wear to the edges of the dust jacket. illustrated, 164 pages. Seller Inventory # 020055
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