Stealing People's Names : History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521385040
ISBN-13
9780521385046
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 1990
Print length
238 Pages
Weight
475 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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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