Prefigured Features: A view from the New Guinea Highlands

Australian Journal of Anthropology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-103

  Strathern, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992800252     PISSN: 10358811     EISSN: 17576547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1997.tb00179.x     Document Type: Article

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