Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action: 79 (Studies in the History of Religions) - Hardcover

Houseman, Michael; Severi, Carlo

 
9789004112209: Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action: 79 (Studies in the History of Religions)

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This book proposes a novel approach to the analysis of ritual action.
Founded upon an in-depth study of the transvestism naven ceremony of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, it focuses on the relational and interactive forms entailed by ritual performance.

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Michael Houseman is Director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and Head of the Systems of African Thought Centre of the EPHE and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He has published extensively on kinship and on ritual.
Carlo Severi is a Senior Fellow of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and a member of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Collège de France. He has published papers in the field of symbolic anthropology and is the author of a book on Cuna shamanism (La memoria rituale, 1993).

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