How Long to Read Cosmologies in the Making

How Long Does it Take to Read Cosmologies in the Making?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read Cosmologies in the Making by Fredrik Barth

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

All culture, particularly that of non-literate traditions, is constantly being recreated, and in the process also undergoes changes. In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses in particular on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share similar material and ecological conditions, and similar languages. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of change, based on his close empirical observation of the processes of cultural transmission. This model emphasises the role of individual creativity in cultural reproduction and change, and maintains that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if they are regarded as knowledge in the process of communication, embedded in social organization, rather than as fixed bodies of belief. From the model he derives various theoretically grounded hypotheses regarding the probable courses of change that would be generated by such mechanisms. He then goes on to show that these hypotheses fit the actual patterns of variation that are found among the Ok.

How long is Cosmologies in the Making?

Cosmologies in the Making by Fredrik Barth is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cosmologies in the Making Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read Cosmologies in the Making aloud.

What Reading Level is Cosmologies in the Making?

Cosmologies in the Making is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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