Echoes of the Tambaran : Masculinity, history and the subject in the work of Donald F. Tuzin

In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran -a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian or patron to those under its aegis as they made their way through life. To Melanesian scholarship, the cultural and psychological anthropologi...

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Main Author: Lipset, David (auth)
Other Authors: Roscoe, Paul (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2011
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