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A'aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)
Michele Stephen
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| #2120670 in Books | 1995-03-01 | 1995-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.96 x1.03 x5.95l,1.33 | File type: PDF | 404 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Inengeai ungaunga au-'i fou a-pi-"aongai.|By kaioatey|The Mekeo are a fairly prosperous tribe in southeastern PNG, making a living by growing and selling sweet potatoes, taro, coconuts and betel nuts in Port Moresby. Stephen describes a stratified hierarchical society based on patrilinear clans in which every person's role is precisely defined both in terms of societal relatio|About the Author|
Michele Stephen, Associate Professor of History, La Trobe University, Australia, is coeditor of The Religious Imagination in New Guinea (1989).
Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-conceptualizations recasts accepted notions about magic and selfhood. Drawing on accounts by Mekeo ritual experts and laypersons, this is the first book to demonstra...
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