Dialectics of the Bowerbird
An Interpretative Account of Ritual and Symbolism in the Udabe valley, Papua New Guinea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Hirsch (0000-0003-0365-9372) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mankind (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-2328 • E-ISSN: 2204-2121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00736.x |
| OpenAlex | W2016713940 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
The association of men and women with birds, as expressed in dance, is a common theme in Melanesian ritual. Often, this is seen as a means by which humans attain some relation with a transcendental reality. But this is only part of the picture. Pigs, in contrast to birds, represent an opposite sort of reality. It is argued here — by an interpretation of the gab — that through such rituals, men and women symbolically situate themselves between the two. The rituals are performed to overcome the precarious nature of human sexuality, appearance and aging associated with the life-cycle process, which contrast with that of both birds and pigs
Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ethnology · Human sexuality · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · New guinea · Relation (database) · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Transcendental number · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2003 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |