Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology

by Simon J. Harrison

Book Overview

Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521026474
• ISBN13: 9780521026475
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"