The Poetics of the Crocodile: Changing Cultural Perspectives in Ambonwari.
Ambonwari people from the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, had a rich repertoire of song-dances, each of which was associated with specific events and the birth of something new. Together they represented the entire human life cycle as well as the cosmology at large. Visual, verbal and tactile...
| Published in: | Oceania Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 217 - 236 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2008
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