Stealing People's Names : History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
9780521385046 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Innbundet
20.09.1990
Engelsk
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Stealing People's Names : History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
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Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person.
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Utgivelsesdato:
01.06.2006
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ISBN:
9780521026475
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Språk:
, Engelsk
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Cambridge University Press -
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Serie:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Sider:
240
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Høyde:
22.9 cm
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Bredde:
15.4 cm
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