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Pork and Feathers

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March 1981, no. 28

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

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands by Shirley Lindenbaum

Mayfield, Palo Alto, $5.00

Pork and Feathers

by
March 1981, no. 28

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.

Powers, Plumes and Piglets: Phenomena of Melanesian Religion, Australian Association for the Study of Melanesian Religion

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

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

by Shirley Lindenbaum

Mayfield, Palo Alto, $5.00

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