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New Ireland malanggan art: a quest for meaning.(Author abstract)(Report)
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Oceania
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November 1, 2007
- Author:
- Billings, Dorothy K.
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Sustained scholarly interest in the malanggan carvings of New Ireland has achieved consensus regarding the social, political, and economic functions of the ceremonies in which they are used but inconclusive interpretations of the iconography of the art objects themselves continue. This paper finds an interpretation of recurring motifs in a reexamination of early reports, published and unpublished, of former burial customs. The perspective presented here supports but cannot confirm informants' insistence that the carvings are not religious but just pictures. No conclusions are reached regarding pre- or post-Christian beliefs in general, but doubt is cast on their role in malanggan art. ...
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