Stealing People's Names

Name: Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521026475
Price: 3936.00 INR
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History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology

by Simon J. Harrison, Meyer Fortes, Edmund Leach

Cambridge University Press

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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 Harrison analyzes the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology, and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies.

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