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Kingship and Sacrifice
Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii
Häftad, 1985
550 kr
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Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to …
Forest of Taboos
Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
Inbunden, 2000
787 kr
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Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
Av Valerio Valeri, Giovanni Da Col m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
266 kr
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The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of …
