Secret Signs in South New Guinea Art

Secret Signs in South New Guinea Art

A comprehensive guide to understanding Asmat and Papuan Gulf Art

Braun, Holger

Sidestone Press

09/2024

450

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9789464262674

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction

2. The Quest for Hidden Cult Knowledge

3. Beyond the Current Life Stage

4. The Worldview in the Cultural Narrative Weave

5. The Bio-Spiritual Cosmology of South New Guinea
5.1 The Cycles of Life
5.2 The Unknown as Nourishment
5.3 The Biological Reproduction of the Social

6. The Secret Spheres of Life and Death

7. The First Ritual Object

8. The Design as a Manual

9. The Ephemeral Body of the Devourer

10. The Permanent Body of the Devourer
10.1 The Bullroarer in the Planting Rite
10.2 The Bullroarer in the Harvesting Rite
10.3 The Bullroarer-Form
10.4 The Bullroarer as Weapon and the Symbol of the Double Spiral

11. The Cult Creature in the West
11.1 Forms of the Bullroarer Creature
11.2 The Devouring Shields
11.3 The Devourer in the Canoe
11.4 The Sphere Model from Manep and the Motif of the Opening

12. The Cult Creature in the East
12.1 The Devourer of the Canoe becomes Gope
12.2 Clan Bullroarers and Bullroarer Masks
12.3 Principles of the Bullroarer Relief Style in the East
12.3.1 Devoured in the Drum
12.3.2 Bioma
12.3.3 Agibe
12.3.4 Imunu and Kakame
12.3.5 Gope-Kwoi-Hohao and Iriwake

13. What we Know is what we Perceive

14. Outlook
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