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Pages: 284
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-09-02 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-09-02 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-01 - Publisher: ANU E Press
In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran --a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian o
Language: en
Pages: 275
Pages: 275
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-26 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially true of the male
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
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Exploring the idea of the museum as a ritual site, this volume looks at contemporary experience across Europe and Africa to reveal the different ways in which v
