{"product_id":"to-remember-the-faces-of-thomas-maschio-9780299140946","title":"To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Thomas Maschio shows that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression, and invention of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaschio demonstrates how such emotions as nostalgia, anger, sadness, and grief are creatively transformed during the course of religious performance and expression into a form of cultural memory--one that juxtaposes a pattern of cultural meaning with the emotional feeling of plenitude the Melanesian Rauto call \u003ci\u003emakai\u003c\/i\u003e. Evoked during initiation, mourning, and agricultural rites, and figuring prominently in Rauto discourse about the self, \u003ci\u003emakai\u003c\/i\u003e joins personal memory to patterned sets of images and meanings that Westerners would call culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Maschio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299140946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299140946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 6.10w x 0.59d","brand":"Thomas Maschio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48152955584767,"sku":"9780299140946","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ab6e305-755d-4c3c-950c-89ed3e2f2f0c.jpg?v=1770780322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-remember-the-faces-of-thomas-maschio-9780299140946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}