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Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: Exchanging Skin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
Anthropological Knowledge Secrecy and Bolivip Papua New Guinea Exchanging Skin - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
Author: Tony Crook
The Min peoples of Papua New Guinea are renowned for their secret male initiation rituals and have proven to be one of the most enigmatic cultures in anthropological experience. This study analyses the 'Min problem', and argues that the root of this long-standing interpretative impasse has been in Anthropology's view of secrecy and knowledge. — B...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780197264003
ISBN-10: 019726400X
Publication Date: 11/11/2007
Pages: 230
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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