Publications

Publication details [#30154]

Maschio, Thomas. 1994. To remember the faces of the dead: The plenitude of memory in Southwestern New Britain. (New Directions in Anthropological Writing: History, Poetics, Cultural Criticism). University of Wisconsin Press. x + 245 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | language and culture | metaphor | myth | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages, Austronesian

Annotation

This book on the expressive and religious culture of the Austronesian-speaking Rauto of New Britain, argues that metaphors in Rauto speech and song, whilst apparently related to mundane activities, evoke the sacred by calling for both emotions of loss and of participation.

Reviewed by

Scott, Michael W. 1995. Review of $To remember the faces of the dead: The plenitude of memory in Southwestern New Britain.