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Title Shooting the sun : ritual and meaning in West Sepik / edited by Bernard Juillerat
Published Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Contents "The mother's brother is the breast" / Bernard Juillerat -- Under the sign of the Cassowary / Alfred Gell -- The Oedipus complex as "Mutterkomplex" / André Green -- Yangis / François Manenti -- The mother's brother's child / Marilyn Strathern -- The imagery keeps its scale / Roy Wagner -- On dialectical versions / Richard P. Werbner -- Revelation and concealment in the cultural orgainization of meaning / Donald Tuzin -- Exegesis, comparison, and interpretation / Andrew Strathern
Analysis Papua New Guinea
Rituals
Notes "Published in cooperation with the Ministere des affaires etrangeres, Paris."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-301) and index
Subject Symbolism.
Umeda (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Yafar (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Author Juillerat, Bernard.
LC no. 92004511
ISBN 1560981687