Arrow talk : transaction, transition, and contradiction in New Guinea highlands history

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Arrow talk : transaction, transition, and contradiction in New Guinea highlands history

Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

Kent State University Press, 2000

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [198]-208

Includes index

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In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this study argues for cultural holism by showing how symbolic, psychological, religious and linguistic factors have shaped Melpa responses to political and economic crises.

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