Memorable Religions: Transmission, Codification and Change in Divergent Melanesian Contexts
Memorable Religions: Transmission, Codification and Change in Divergent Melanesian Contexts
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London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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Barth has argued that Baktaman religious understandings are for the most part communicated non-verbally in an `analogic code'. By contrast, in the Pomio Kivung, a religious movement of East New Britain, ideas are codified predominantly in language, in the form of elaborate cosmology and exegesis. Whereas the Baktaman tradition is concerned with the...
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Memorable Religions: Transmission, Codification and Change in Divergent Melanesian Contexts
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_37433662
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_37433662
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0025-1496,1359-0987
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2397-2548
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10.2307/2804174
