Reverse anthropology : indigenous analysis of social and environmental relations in New Guinea /

Reverse anthropology : indigenous analysis of social and environmental relations in New Guinea /

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Author / Creator:Kirsch, Stuart.
Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Description:xix, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.
Civilization.
Ethnology.
Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
Papua New Guinea -- Civilization.
Papua New Guinea.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6104615
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ISBN:0804753415 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804753423 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804753418
9780804753425
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-261) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on languages
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical encounters
  • 2. The enchantment of place
  • 3. Unrequited reciprocity
  • 4. Sorcery and the mine
  • 5. Mythical encounters
  • 6. Divining violence
  • 7. Loss and the future imagined
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
For Manning Nash and Karl Heider in appreciation of their teaching in anthropology bookplate
Gift of Belle Friedman bookplate

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