Stealing people's names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology / Simon J. Harrison
- Bib ID:
- 1753819
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Harrison, Simon J
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990
- xiii, 221 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521385040
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 71.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Manambu
- 2. Avatip
- 3. Magic and the totemic cosmology
- 4. Ceremonial rank
- 5. Male initiation
- 6. Treading elder brothers underfoot
- 7. The debating system
- 8. The rise of the subclan Maliyaw
- 9. Symbolic economies in Melansia
- bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Papua New Guinea. Sepik River region. Cultural processes (BNB/PRECIS).
- Bibliography: p205-213. - Includes index.
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