Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People.

1968/12/01 by Marilyn Strathern, Roy A. Rappaport, Roy A. Rappàport · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Indigenous Studies and Ecology

paper · doi:10.2307/2798638

Abstract

Examines the religious behavior among the natives of New Guinea, discusses the economic and ecological factors affecting their culture, and discusses the effectiveness of functional analysis.

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