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Between Culture and Fantasy : A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
Between Culture and Fantasy A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
Author: Gillian Gillison
The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insigh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226293813
ISBN-10: 0226293815
Publication Date: 7/1/1993
Pages: 406
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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