The mask of war : violence, ritual, and the self in Melanesia
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The mask of war : violence, ritual, and the self in Melanesia
（Themes in social anthropology）
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-159 )
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A study of the Melanesian conception of warfare and aggression, which examines the ideological uses to which these indigenous constructs of violence are used in Melanesian political life. It specifically examines the systems of ideology or symbolism which shape the actualities of warfare.
Table of Contents
- Community against clanship
- dangerous friends - the Iatmul of Japandai
- congenial enemies - patterns of enmity and alliance
- war and the men's cult
- the ethnopsychology of war magic
- war and ritual hierarchy
- violence and the symbolic construction of polity.
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