The Curse Of Souw: Principles Of Daribi Clan Definition And Alliance

Author: Roy Wagner

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ISBN : 2471713061196
Publisher : The University of Chicago Press
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The first full-length study of a little-known mountain people of New Guinea. Subsisting by primitive agriculture in the overcast rain forests on the rim of the central highlands, the Daribi clasman experiences the world in terms of a universal causality. The shaming of the culture-hero Souw, in a myth analogous in some respects to the Genesis story of the fall of man, is seen as the original cause of the chain of mutual recrimination and revenge which extends to the present day.

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