Names are Thicker than Blood: Kinship and Ownership amongst the Iatmul

Names are Thicker than Blood: Kinship and Ownership amongst the Iatmul

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-220

  Moutu, Andrew ^a  

^a Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Gender; Human Society; Kinship; Marriage; Non Western Societies; Ownership; Personhood; Sepik River Iatmul; Social Relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925061343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264454.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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