Cosmologies in the Making

A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea

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by Fredrik Barth

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 1990, 112 pages, paper

ISBN 0521387353

Offering a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs, this book examines the changes that have taken place in the transmission of secret cosmological lore in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok tribe of Inner New Guinea.