The Mount Kare python and his gold: Totemism and ecology in the Papua New Guinea highlands

American Anthropologist

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 68-87

  Biersack, Aletta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mining; Papua New Guinea; Place; Symbolic ecology; Totemism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033425982     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.68     Document Type: Article

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