Faith and its fulfillment: Agency, exchange, and the Fijian aesthetics of completion

American Ethnologist

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-51

  Miyazaki, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034342795     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.31     Document Type: Article

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