Telban, Borut — Dancing Through Time: A Sepik Cosmology

Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Oxford University Press series, Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. From the publisher's blurb, the ethnography presents "a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Krawari-speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit-things, rituals and dances." Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [6], 2-270 pp. including an extensive Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, a List of Maps, a List of Figures, a List of Tables, a List of Plates and a Note on Orthography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,