The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain: Part One.
In the middle 1940s, at a time when white people were just beginning to penetrate the western highlands of what would become Papua New Guinea, a cult spread quickly among Engas, Ipili speakers, and Somaips. In the seminal article 'The Sun and the Shakers' published almost 40 years ago, Mervyn J. Meg...
| Publicado en: | Oceania Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 113 - 137 |
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