Title Habu : the innovation of meaning in Daribi religion / Roy Wagner

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1972

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Description xii, 186 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm Contents Introduction: the masks of meaning -- 1. Origins -- 2. The ideology of exchange -- 3. The magic of metaphor -- 4. Daribi naming -- 5. Space, water, and the dead -- 6. Izibidi: the invention of immortality -- 7. Habu -- 8. Conclusion Analysis Religion Habu New Guinea Daribi Sociological perspectives Daribi (Papua New Guinea people) - Religion Notes Bibliographyp.175-177. _ Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index Notes Includes text in Daribi Subject Religion. Daribi language -- Texts Daribi (Papua New Guinean people) Daribi language. Daribi (Papua New Guinean people) SUBJECT Papua New Guinea -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112562 Genre/Form Texts. LC no. 75188236 ISBN 0226869725

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