TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hauser-Schäublin,Brigitta
AU  - Stephenson,Nigel
TI  - Ceremonial houses of the abelam: Papua New Guinea archtitecture and ritual - a passage to the ancestors 
SN  - 9781863333443
AV  - GN671.N5 H3813  2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Australia
PB  - Crawford House Publishing
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Abelam (Melanesian People)
KW  - Social life
KW  - Rituals
N1  - 1. Migration, settlements and social structure; 2. Ceremonial houses: architecture and construction; 3 The ceremonial ground as a stage of social life; 4 The ceremonial house and the world beyond; 5 Ceremonial house and ceremonial ground: an interpretation
N2  - The ceremonial houses of the Abelam people (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea), rank as architectual masterpieces. This book offers a unique documentation of the architecture of the different styles of ceremonial houses according to region, their mode of constuction and the impressice facade paintings. It goes on to explain the social networks responsible for the construction and maintenance, and crucial agents of social information. The author presents an extensive description and analysis of Abelam society at a time when the people were still building ceremonial houses, staging initiations and sacrificing pigs
ER  -