Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

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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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Forlag Cambridge University Press
Forfatter Simon J. (University of Ulster) Harrison
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 01-06-2006
Første udgivelsesår 2006
Serie Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Illustrationer Worked examples or Exercises
Originalsprog United Kingdom
Sideantal 240
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag Cambridge University Press
Sideoplysninger 240 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
Mål 229 x 154 x 16
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9780521026475