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Anthropology in the high valleys : essays on the New Guinea highlands in honor of Kenneth E. Read / L.L. Langness and Terence E. Hays, editors.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .A57 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Chandler & Sharp publications in anthropology and related fields
- Chandler & Sharp publications in anthropology and related fields.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Read, Keneth E.
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.
- Ethnology.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Novato, Calif. : Chandler & Sharp Publishers, [1987]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- ISBN:
- 0883165554 :
- OCLC:
- 14414305
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