Bodies and persons
Subtitle: comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
By: edited by Michael Lambek and Andrew Strathern.
Contributors: Lambek, Michael.; Strathern, Andrew.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Africa; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Melanesia; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Melanesia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-293) and index.
"Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented in a panel organized by the editors at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 1994"--Acknowledgments.