Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology by Simon J. Harrison

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

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Simon J. Harrison

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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 analyzes the significance of names in the context of Avat...

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