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essays on the New Guinea highlands in honor of Kenneth E. Read

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Chandler & Sharp Publishers
Language
English
Pages
372

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Subjects
Social life and customs, Ethnology
People
Kenneth E. Read
Places
Papua New Guinea

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Anthropology in the high valleys: essays on the New Guinea highlands in honor of Kenneth E. Read
1987, Chandler & Sharp Publishers
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Table of Contents

A day for stealing : deviance in a New Guinea society / L.L. Langness
Semen, spittle, blood, and sweat : a New Guinea theory of nutrition / Anna Meigs
"Taboos" and statements about taboos : issues in the taxonomic analysis of behavioral restrictions among the New Guinea Kafe / Harold G. Levine
Laying down the law in their own fashion / Marie Reay
Church law, court law / George D. Westermark
Em Strongpela Meri / K.J. Pataki-Schweizer
Daribi and Barok images of public man / Roy Wagner
Initiation as experience / Terence E. Hays
The accountability of Sambia initiates / Gilbert H. Herdt
Morality, personhood, tricksters, and youths : some narrative images of ethics among Bimin-Kuskusmin / Fitz John Porter Poole
Bibliography of Kenneth E. Read / compiled by Terence E. Hays.

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Includes bibliographies.

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Novato, Calif
Series
Chandler & Sharp publications in anthropology and related fields

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.0995
Library of Congress
DU740.42 .A57 1987

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Pagination
xi, 372 p. :
Number of pages
372

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OL2732254M
ISBN 10
0883165554
LCCN
86026415
OCLC/WorldCat
14414305
Goodreads
2103893

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