Ethnology, Volume 15University of Pittsburgh, 1976 - Anthropology |
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... possum , which males publicly maintain is permitted eating only to uninitiated and very old males , although I could not initially find one old man who would admit to eating possum . Possum is publicly abhorred by males because a'di ...
... possum , which males publicly maintain is permitted eating only to uninitiated and very old males , although I could not initially find one old man who would admit to eating possum . Possum is publicly abhorred by males because a'di ...
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... Possum eating is another behavior suggestive of male imitation of female . Possum , which is identified with women , is the most dramatically tabooed of all foods . As stated earlier , a male who eats possum becomes pregnant . His ...
... Possum eating is another behavior suggestive of male imitation of female . Possum , which is identified with women , is the most dramatically tabooed of all foods . As stated earlier , a male who eats possum becomes pregnant . His ...
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possum secretly in the forest . They appeared to have no knowledge of the zgama zu'bo . Possum had on the one hand the public status of a food which was , because of its identification with women , extremely dangerous , and on the other ...
possum secretly in the forest . They appeared to have no knowledge of the zgama zu'bo . Possum had on the one hand the public status of a food which was , because of its identification with women , extremely dangerous , and on the other ...
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Changing Icelandic Kinship | 1 |
Property and Ritual | 21 |
Measuring Marriage Preference | 35 |
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