| #13134595 in Books | Iceland University Press | 2003-08-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.04 x.49 x6.66l,.68 | File type: PDF | 182 pages | |
This book is about the Kwermin people living in the Mountain Ok sphere of Papua New Guinea. Its focus is on Kwermin notions of how proper social persons are produced, and the similarity and recurrence of certain themes, referred to as 'sequences of growth', in both origin myths and rituals of initiation. As a counterpoint to this discussion of growing social beings, narratives that seek to explain death are presented. It is shown that even though accounts of growi...
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