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Part One - 'TRADITION'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

G. W. Trompf
G. W. Trompf
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University of Sydney
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Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild–and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the the sound of bells in a Christian country.

Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important.

Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly in T. S. Eliot The Cocktail Party
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Payback
The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions
 , pp. 19 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1994

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  • 'TRADITION'
  • G. W. Trompf, University of Sydney
  • Book: Payback
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470141.003
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  • 'TRADITION'
  • G. W. Trompf, University of Sydney
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  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470141.003
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  • 'TRADITION'
  • G. W. Trompf, University of Sydney
  • Book: Payback
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470141.003
Available formats
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