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Hardcover Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea Book

ISBN: 0897897625

ISBN13: 9780897897624

Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea

This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and wellness through an examination of a rich set of ethnographic materials from the Pacific islands of New Guinea. The particular structure of the book draws together otherwise disparate observations made by ethnographers on ideas of the body. It helps to reveal how these are related to ideas of sickness and curing, of witchcraft, of cannibalism, of gender...

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