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Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book
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, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies.Read More
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- 0521026474
- 9780521026475
- Simon J. Harrison
- 1 June 2006
- Cambridge University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- New Ed
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