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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Pages
- 230 pages
- ISBN
- 9780197264003
Anthropological knowledge, secrecy, and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
The outer archives are busy
About this book
This study of one of the most enigmatic cultures in the world looks at the nature of knowledge in the Min area of Papua New Guinea (where sharing knowledge is believed to be like exchanging skin), and uses these understandings to consider our own anthropoligical notions of knowledge.
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Romance
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