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The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2005)
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The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2005)
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This classic ethnography, now in second edition, describes the
traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of
Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and
violent Gisaro ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in
the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and
emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday
Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and passions
of Kaluli experience are governed by the basic forms of social
reciprocity. However, Gisaro also reveals that social reciprocity
is not limited to the dynamics of transaction, obligation, and
alliance. It emerges, rather, as a mode of symbolic action and
performative form, embodying a cultural scenario which shapes
Kaluli emotional experience and moral sensibility and permeates
their understanding of the human condition.
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