A melanesian pygmalion: Masculine creativity and symbolic castration in a postcolonial backwater

Ethos

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-77

  Lipset, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Lacan; Masculinity; Murik; Postcolonial papua new guinea; Sepik

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649103923     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2009.01031.x     Document Type: Article

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