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Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland (Princeton Legacy Library)
Roy Wagner
Hardcover. Princeton University Press 2016-04-19.
ISBN 9780691638973
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Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast" of that cycle, is invoked by the word "asiwinarong, " which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest
Originally published in 1986.
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