The Growth of Species and the Making of Timeless Forms: Divine Objects and Extraordinary Bodies in Fijian Ritual Polities.
Oceanic polities and social organizations are often characterized as life‐giving systems that reproduce specific modes of humanity in ritual cycles of cosmogony or in regenerative flows of ancestral substance and relatedness. These portrayals typically enforce a strong ontological contrast between t...
| Publicado en: | Oceania Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 55 - 69 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2018
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