Ku Waru. Language and segmentary politics in the western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea

by Francesca And Alan Rumsey Merlan

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Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1991. Stock ID #66972 387pp, appendix, glossary, notes, reference, index, spine sunned, very good in dustjacket. This study based on original fieldwork carried out in the Nebilyer Valley, one of the areas of the highlands known for its elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange, focuses on an inter-related set of large-scale compensation payments which arose out of an episode of

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