num_pages: 291
description: 'Analyzes the culture, particularly the ritual life, of a recently contacted aboriginal society--the Baktaman, a nation of 183 persons occupying a tract of mountain rain forest near the center of New Guinea.' - Front jacket blurb.
language: English
title: Ritual and knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea
titlecomplete: Ritual and knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea
publisher: Yale University Press