ISBN:
9780191760501
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 218 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph
DDC:
305.89912
Keywords:
Iatmul
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Namengebung
;
Eigentum
;
Ethnologie
;
Iatmul (Papua New Guinean people) Kinship
;
Right of property
;
Papua New Guinea Social life and customs
Abstract:
This is an ethnographic study of kinship and the nature and behaviour of ownership amongst the much-studied Sepik River Iatmul people. Written from the viewpoint of a Melanesian scholar, this text re-thinks anthropology's central assumptions about social relations.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5871/bacad/9780197264454.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264454.001.0001
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