Ethnology, Volume 29University of Pittsburgh, 1990 - Anthropology |
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... Tanna . John Frum was a spiritual mediator who linked the island with the outside world , particularly America . He appeared first to villagers near Green Point on Tanna's west coast . A shadowy figure showed himself in the night and ...
... Tanna . John Frum was a spiritual mediator who linked the island with the outside world , particularly America . He appeared first to villagers near Green Point on Tanna's west coast . A shadowy figure showed himself in the night and ...
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... Tanna's discursive conditions of inspiration and copyrighting require people to listen for ancestral voices . Only in so doing can they induce others to pay attention to what they say -- to make their conversation sound both truthful ...
... Tanna's discursive conditions of inspiration and copyrighting require people to listen for ancestral voices . Only in so doing can they induce others to pay attention to what they say -- to make their conversation sound both truthful ...
Page 325
... Tanna , Aneityum and the Isle of Pines in Comparative Perspective . Journal of the Polynesian Society 98 : 7-48 . Fortune , R. 1965 ( 1935 ) . Manus Religion : An Ethnological Study of the Manus Natives of the Admiralty Islands ...
... Tanna , Aneityum and the Isle of Pines in Comparative Perspective . Journal of the Polynesian Society 98 : 7-48 . Fortune , R. 1965 ( 1935 ) . Manus Religion : An Ethnological Study of the Manus Natives of the Admiralty Islands ...
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