Anthropology in the high valleys
Subtitle: essays on the New Guinea highlands in honor of Kenneth E. Read
By: L.L. Langness and Terence E. Hays, editors.
Contributors: Langness, L. L. 1929-; Hays, Terence E.
Series: Chandler & Sharp publications in anthropology and related fields
Publisher: Chandler & Sharp Publishers
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Novato, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Read, Kenneth E.; Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.; Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: A day for stealing : deviance in a New Guinea society / L.L. Langness; title: Semen, spittle, blood, and sweat : a New Guinea theory of nutrition / Anna Meigs; title: "Taboos" and statements about taboos : issues in the taxonomic analysis of behavioral restrictions among the New Guinea Kafe / Harold G. Levine; title: Laying down the law in their own fashion / Marie Reay; title: Church law, court law / George D. Westermark; title: Em Strongpela Meri / K.J. Pataki-Schweizer; title: Daribi and Barok images of public man / Roy Wagner; title: Initiation as experience / Terence E. Hays; title: The accountability of Sambia initiates / Gilbert H. Herdt; title: Morality, personhood, tricksters, and youths : some narrative images of ethics among Bimin-Kuskusmin / Fitz John Porter Poole; title: Bibliography of Kenneth E. Read / compiled by Terence E. Hays.