Bodies and Persons
Subtitle: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
Contributors: Michael Lambek (Editor); Andrew Strathern (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521627375
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Symbolic aspects; Melanesia; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Africa; Popular Culture - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Body, Human--Social aspects--Africa; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Body, Human; Social aspects
First sentence: This volume brings together a series of intensive investigations by Africanists and Melanesianists on the relations between persons and bodies.