Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Manambu
- 2 Avatip
- 3 Magic and the totemic cosmology
- 4 Ceremonial rank
- 5 Male initiation
- 6 Treading elder brothers underfoot
- 7 The debating system
- 8 The rise of the subclan Maliyaw
- 9 Symbolic economies in Melanesia
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Manambu
- 2 Avatip
- 3 Magic and the totemic cosmology
- 4 Ceremonial rank
- 5 Male initiation
- 6 Treading elder brothers underfoot
- 7 The debating system
- 8 The rise of the subclan Maliyaw
- 9 Symbolic economies in Melanesia
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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- Stealing People's NamesHistory and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology, pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990