Kirsch, Stuart.

Reverse anthropology : indigenous analysis of social and environmental relations in New Guinea / Stuart Kirsch. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006. - xix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Meridian, crossing aesthetics . - Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-261) and index.

Historical encounters -- The enchantment of place -- Unrequited reciprocity -- Sorcery and the mine -- Mythical encounters -- Divining violence -- Loss and the future imagined.

0804753415 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804753423 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804753418 9780804753425

2006006602


Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.


Papua New Guinea--Civilization.

Fellow Mercedes-Benz Fellow Class of Fall 2023

DU740.4 / .K57 2006

305.89/95