Feasting on my enemy: Images of violence and change in the New Guinea Highlands

Ethnohistory

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 645-669

  Stewart, Pamela J ^a   Strathern, Andrew ^a  

^a NONE

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ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; VIOLENCE; WITCHCRAFT;

ANTHROPOLOGY; CANNIBALISM; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLITICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; VIOLENCE; WITCHCRAFT;

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