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Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society
Roger Keesing
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Description for Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society
Paperback. Keesing studies how the Kwaio have held on to their traditional ways despite 125 years of European colonialism and a militantly Christian national culture. Num Pages: 257 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HRKN; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernizing nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways. Drawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the phenomenological reality of world where one's group includes the living and the dead, where conversations with the spirits, and the sing of their presence and acts, are very much a part of everyday life. He describes conceptions of mana and tabu that shed revealing light on old issues regarding Oceanic religion. Keesing ... Read more
In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernizing nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways. Drawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the phenomenological reality of world where one's group includes the living and the dead, where conversations with the spirits, and the sing of their presence and acts, are very much a part of everyday life. He describes conceptions of mana and tabu that shed revealing light on old issues regarding Oceanic religion. Keesing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
257
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231053419
SKU
V9780231053419
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About Roger Keesing
Roger Keesing is professor and head of the department of anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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