The semiotics of world-making in Korowai feast longhouses

Language and Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 359-383

  Stasch, Rupert ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture; Contingency; Feasts; Iconicity; Indexicality; New Guinea

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038713884     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5309(03)00015-6     Document Type: Article

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