Don't tell the crocodile: An existentialist view of melanesian myth

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 430-454

  Van Heekeren, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotional experience; Existential philosophy; Melanesia; Mythic participation; Ontology; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844268620     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X04047840     Document Type: Article

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