The gender of the cosmos: Totemism, society and embodiment in the Sepik River

Oceania

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-49

  Silverman, Eric Kline ^a  

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EID: 0030508934     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02570.x     Document Type: Article

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