Anthropological knowledge, secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea : exchanging skin /

Anthropological knowledge, secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea : exchanging skin /

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Author / Creator:	Crook, Tony.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:	267 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Bolivip. Knowledge, Theory of -- Papua New Guinea -- Bolivip. Ethnology. Knowledge, Theory of. Manners and customs. Bolivip (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea -- Bolivip.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6630574

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Other authors / contributors:	British Academy.
ISBN:	9780197264003 (hbk.) 019726400X (hbk.)
Notes:	"Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press". Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This study of one of the most enigmatic cultures in the world looks at the nature of knowledge in the Min area of Papua New Guinea (where sharing knowledge is believed to be like exchanging skin), and uses these understandings to consider our own anthropoligical notions of knowledge.
Other form:	Online version: Crook, Tony. Anthropological knowledge, secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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