'I was like Abraham': Notes on the anthropology of Christianity from the Solomon Islands

Ethnos

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-125

  Scott, Michael W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti essentialism; Christianity; Cultural logic; Melanesia; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 15044355052     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840500048565     Document Type: Article

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