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Reverse anthropology : indigenous analysis of social and environmental relations in New Guinea / Stuart Kirsch.

By: Kirsch, Stuart.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.): Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006Description: xix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0804753415 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0804753423 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780804753418; 9780804753425.Subject(s): Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people) | Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea -- CivilizationOnline resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Historical encounters -- The enchantment of place -- Unrequited reciprocity -- Sorcery and the mine -- Mythical encounters -- Divining violence -- Loss and the future imagined.
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General Circulation Books General Circulation Books Non-fiction DU740.4.K57 2006 (Browse shelf) Available MA
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-261) and index.

Historical encounters -- The enchantment of place -- Unrequited reciprocity -- Sorcery and the mine -- Mythical encounters -- Divining violence -- Loss and the future imagined.

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