Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

3/1/1989 - 1/31/1991

Funding Totals

$45,000.00 (approved)
$45,000.00 (awarded)


Performance, Poetics, Ideology, and Persuasion in Bosavi Spirit Seances

FAIN: RO-21778-88

Edward Schieffelin
Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)

To support collaborative research for a book-length monograph on non-Western methods of community discussion and agreement as expressed in the social rituals of the Bosavi people of New Guinea.