Dead canoes: The Fate of agency in twentieth-century Murik art

Social Analysis

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-140

  Lipset, David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agency; Art; Cosmology; Gell; History; Murik lakes; Personhood; Sepik

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247654472     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/015597705780996309     Document Type: Article

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