Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea
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Review
“[t]his a welcome contribution to the exsisting anthropological works concerned with the body and the person in New Guinea in general; in addition, it provides new ethnographical information on the Hagen, Pangia, and Duna.”–Int. Review of Anthropology and Linguistics
Book Description
Explores and elaborates a theme of fundamental significance in the societies of New Guinea--humors and substances of the human body--to illuminate themes of gender relations, witchcraft, ecology, ritual, and the treatment of sickness, all seen within the framework of the wider cosmos.
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea,Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern,Bergin & Garvey,0897897625,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,Body fluids,Body, Human,Ethnology,Ethnology And Ethnography,New Guinea,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Social aspects,Sociology,Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
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