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The Gebusi : lives transformed in a rainforest world / Bruce Knauft.

By: Knauft, Bruce M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xv, 190 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780078034923 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions | Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Cultural assimilation | Gebusi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs | Social change -- Papua New Guinea | Acculturation -- Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
Contents:
Friends in the forest -- Rhythms of survival -- Lives of death -- Getting along with kin and killers -- Spirits, sex, and celebration -- Ultimate splendor -- Time for change: Yuway's sacred decision -- Pennies and peanuts, rugby and radios -- Mysterious romance, marital choice -- Sayu's dance and after -- Revival --- 2012 and beyond.
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General Circulation Books General Circulation Books Non-fiction DU740.42.K53 2013 (Browse shelf) Available MA
General Circulation Books General Circulation Books Non-fiction DU740.42.K53 2013 (Browse shelf) Available MA
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Includes index.

Friends in the forest -- Rhythms of survival -- Lives of death -- Getting along with kin and killers -- Spirits, sex, and celebration -- Ultimate splendor -- Time for change: Yuway's sacred decision -- Pennies and peanuts, rugby and radios -- Mysterious romance, marital choice -- Sayu's dance and after -- Revival --- 2012 and beyond.

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