ISBN: 9788177551914    Publisher: Cosmo Publications Year of publishing: 2001     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 312        Language: English

Contributors
Christine Hugh Jones • Hortense Powdermaker • G. Roheim • Andrew Strathern • Hugo G. Nutini • Susan J. Rasmussen • Michael Lambek • Gilber Lewis • Victor Turmer • J. Troisi
Contents
• The Life-Cycle
• Mortuary Rites in New Ireland (Bismarch Archipelago)
• Dying Gods and Puberty Ceremonies
• Male Initiation in New Guinea Highlands Societies
• Pre-Hispanic Component of the Syncretic Cult of the Dead in Mesoamerica
• Interpreting Androgynous Woman: Female Aging and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg
• Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System
• Problems of Ritual in General
• Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage
• The Santal Life-Cycle: Rites and Ceremonies

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