Killing as reproductive agency: Dugong, pigs, and humanity among the Kiwai, circa 1900

Anthropos

Volumn 91, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 359-379

  Stasch, Rupert ^a  

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Author keywords

Animal symbolism; Anthropomorphism and the margins of the social world; Embodiment; Hunting and gender; South coast New Guinea

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EID: 0040159443     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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