Cultural efflorescence and political evolution on the Sepik River

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2465992
AutoresHarrison (0000-0001-5614-8715, University of Ulster, autor de correspondencia), Simon Harrison (0000-0002-2383-8995, University of Ulster, autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Volumen14
Número3
Páginas491-507
Fecha de publicación1987-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1987.14.3.02a00050
OpenAlexW2032199582
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas28

This paper argues that the precolonial political system of the Manambu, a people of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, was in a process of evolving institutions of rank, and that these patterns of hereditary stratification were emerging into existence from a religious ideology based in the male initiatory system. What made ritual an important motive force of political evolution in this society, was that prestigious ritual forms had exchange value in the regional system of intertribal trade. [Manambu, Sepik, Melanesia, political evolution, ritual, trade

Biology · Economics · Ethnology · Exchange value · Ideology · New guinea · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stratification (seeds · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies