Powers, Plumes and Piglets: Phenomena of Melanesian Religion, Australian Association for the Study of Melanesian Religion
Sturt CAE, $6.50
Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
Mayfield, Palo Alto, $5.00
Pork and Feathers
In Papua New Guinea, no one dies from natural causes except, perhaps, some foreigners. At least, that is what every islander believes. Even a lifelong active Christian such as Mr Justice Narakobi’s mother, on her deathbed, attributed her fatal asthma to sorcery.
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Powers, Plumes and Piglets: Phenomena of Melanesian Religion, Australian Association for the Study of Melanesian Religion
edited by Norman C. Habel
Sturt CAE, $6.50
Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
by Shirley Lindenbaum
Mayfield, Palo Alto, $5.00
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