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A'Aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-08829-0
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.1995
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520088290
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-08829-0
  • Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.1995
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 1995
  • Serie: Stories in Melanesian Anthropo
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 603 g
  • Seiten: 404
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: From Manifest to Hidden
1 The Visible Ordering of Things

2 Manifest and Concealed

3 From Visible Things: Fieldwork 1969-1971

4 To Hidden Things: Fieldwork 1980-1982

5 A Distinctive Mode of Imagination

Part II: Dreaming and the Hidden Self
6 Dreams

7 A Hidden Self

8 Dreams and Self-Knowledge

Part Ill: The Sorrows of Knowledge
9 The Traditions of Secret Knowledge

10 Two Dream Diviners: Josephina and Janet
11 Two Men of Knowledge: Alex and Francis

12 Observing a Man of Knowledge: Aisaga

13 Learning "Sorcery" Unawares

14 The Sorrows of Acquiring Knowledge

15 A'aisa's Gifts

Part IV: Conclusion
16 Magic, Self, and Autonomous Imagination

Notes

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index