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Pigs for the Ancestors

Paperback • 1984 • English

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People; New, enlarged edition

By Rappaport, Roy A.

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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

Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780300032055

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

Pigs for the Ancestors

Format

Paperback

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