| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 381 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 13
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Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and indexes. |
| Contents |
From manifest to hidden -- The visible ordering of things -- Manifest and concealed -- From visible things: fieldwork 1969-1971 -- To hidden things: fieldwork 1980-1982 -- A distinctive mode of imagination -- Dreaming and the hidden self -- Dreams -- A hidden self -- Dreams and self-knowledge -- The sorrows of knowledge -- The traditions of secret knowledge -- Two dream diviners: Josephina and Janet -- Two men of knowledge: Alex and Francis -- Observing a man of knowledge: Aisaga -- Learning "Sorcery" unawares -- The sorrows of acquiring knowledge -- A'aisa's gifts -- Magic, self, and autonomous imagination. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology.
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Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology. |
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Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) |
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Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Philosophy, Mekeo.
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Philosophy, Mekeo. |
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Magic, Mekeo.
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Magic, Mekeo. |
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Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea.
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Ethnopsychology. |
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Papua New Guinea. |
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Self (Philosophy) -- Papua New Guinea.
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Self (Philosophy) |
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Dreams.
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Dreams. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stephen, Michele. A'aisa's gifts. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995 0520087615 (DLC) 94024807 (OCoLC)31166628 |
| ISBN |
9780520915275 (electronic book) |
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0520915275 (electronic book) |
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058512986X (electronic book) |
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9780585129860 (electronic book) |
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0520087615 |
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0520088298 |
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