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All culture, particularly that of non-literate traditions, is constantly being recreated, and in the process also undergoes changes. In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the …
This book presents a detailed account of the lives of the Baruya, a tribal society in highlands of Papua New Guinea and will interest scholars and students of anthropology.
A study of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea.
For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the …
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 …