Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: Exchanging Skin

Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: Exchanging Skin

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-276

  Crook, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Bateson; Bolivip; Ethnography; Fortune; Mead; Min; Papua New Guinea; Strathern; Weiner

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450166413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264003.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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