Ethnology, Volume 29University of Pittsburgh, 1990 - Anthropology |
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In these southern Highlands societies, large-scale public prestations are less
likely to be identified with particular big men, but rather with situationally-
organized factions or named groups of men. For this reason, to describe big men
as "nodes" ...
In these southern Highlands societies, large-scale public prestations are less
likely to be identified with particular big men, but rather with situationally-
organized factions or named groups of men. For this reason, to describe big men
as "nodes" ...
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That role is more widely claimed and contested. Now, everywhere in the
Highlands, big men play a key role in "making" groups; their oratorical
interventions during clan policy meetings, together with private persuasions,
transform actions that ...
That role is more widely claimed and contested. Now, everywhere in the
Highlands, big men play a key role in "making" groups; their oratorical
interventions during clan policy meetings, together with private persuasions,
transform actions that ...
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For some examples of the literature on southern Highlanders--by which I mean
those grassland peoples living in the Southern Highlands Province, who practice
relatively intensive forms of sweet potato cultivation geared not only for human ...
For some examples of the literature on southern Highlanders--by which I mean
those grassland peoples living in the Southern Highlands Province, who practice
relatively intensive forms of sweet potato cultivation geared not only for human ...
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Contents
Legal Adaptation in a Papua New Guinea Village Court | 17 |
Big Men Big Women and Cultural Autonomy Maria Lepowsky | 35 |
The Spatial Anchoring of Myth | 51 |
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