Anthropos: Anthropos, 92.1997,1/3

Anthropos, 92.1997,1/3

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711886

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711886

Persistent identifier:: 1513768301723

Title:: Anthropos, 92.1997,1/3

Year of Publication:: 1997

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 92, 1997, Heft 1-3

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Studia Instituti Anthropos Vol. 47 Laurel Birch de Aguilar Inscribing the Mask Interpretation of Nyau Masks and Ritual Performance among the Chewa of Central Malawi 247 p., paper-back, 32 p. Photos, Fr. 65.- ISBN 3-7278-1064-5 This book presents original research of Nyau masks among the Chewa people in the central region of Malawi. Masks are created and performed by mem bers of the Nyau society, a secretive society extending throughout the central and southern regions of Malawi and contiguous areas of Mozambique and Zambia. Masks are performed for the community ritual events: funerals, initiations, consecration of the community ritual space for a new Chief, and funeral remembrances. The book is framed theoretically by the work of Paul Ricoeur in interpretation and meta phor. The case is made that masks are social phenomena subject to a text-interpretation, or hermeneutical method of interpretation. Combined with this framework is the central,recurring theme found throughout each Chapter and interpretation of masking: the theme of the living, the dead and the hope of rebirth in the exegesis of the masks. Each chapter takes a perspective on masks and masking, including performance, masks in social roles and community, historical experience, the making of masks, ritual and religious beliefs; culmination in an overall cosmological interpretation of Chewa masks and Chewa society. The book attempts to demonstrate that Chewa masks, with all the inherent conflicts, diver sities and differing local understandings, does present a totality, a wholeness of society. This wholeness is shown to be construed from the myriad details which make up masking, accounting for change and adaptation while asserting a continuity in the central theme. Universitàtsverlag Freiburg Schweiz Editions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse University Press Fribourg Switzerland

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