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 | #7551632 in Books |  Simon J Harrison |  2006-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.55 x5.98l,.79 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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|| |"A short review cannot do justice to the complex and subtle analysis Harrison provides. This is a very rich ethnography that makes substantial contributions to important theoretical discussions in anthropology. Read it to appreciate it." Nancy McDowell, Am

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 analyzes the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology, and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the arena of Avatip political ...

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