The mount kare python and his gold : totemism and ecology in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

Lying between the Huli and Paiela peoples of the Papua New Guinea highlands, Mt. Kare, the site of a gold rush from 1988 to 1990, presently inspires millenarian speculations about an imminent cosmic revolution. Mt. Kare was traditionally a ritual site where pigs were sacrificed to Taiyundika, a tote...

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Main Author: Biersack, Aletta
Format: Analitica de revista
Language:English
Published: Arlington American Antropological Association 1999
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Call Number: AM. ANTHROPOL.-01/99
Copy Barcode: FICTICIO146
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