Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions

Trompf, G. W.

ISBN 10: 0521416914 / ISBN 13: 9780521416917

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. Boards have light edge wear at spine foot. Near Fine DJ in protective cover. 545 pp. Bibliography, Index. First Edition. A very nice copy.

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• Titolo: Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521416914
• ISBN 13: 9780521416917
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Pacific Islands

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Riassunto

In this study Garry Trompf shows how various aspects of 'payback', both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life.

Recensione

"In this fascinating book, Trompf brings to fruition fifteen years of unstinting research on religion in the southwest Pacific region....Trompf's breadth of erudition and vision...is bound to stir fresh and stimulating debate, not only because it interprets the world of Melanesian retributive logics but also because it takes on the task of changing them." History of Religions

"Trompf pointedly rebukes materialist theories of human behavior and also notions of primitive irrationality....The volume combines an extraordinary, even numbing, assortment of ethnographic detail with a simple, unitary, explanatory premise." Lamont Lindstrom, The Contemporary Pacific