Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls: An Essay on the Yagwoia "Womba" Complex

by Jadran Mimica

For the Yagwoia-Anga people of Papua New Guinea, "womba" is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh. Drawing on long-term research among the Yagwoia and informed by existential phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Jadran Mimica explores the womba complex in its local cultural-existential determinations and regional permutations. He attends to the lived experience of this complex in relation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912808315
• ISBN13: 9781912808311
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Hau
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"