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A Note on Language Foreword Robert A. LeVine Preface to the 1994 edition Preface Introduction 1: People of the Mountain Forest 2: Idioms and Verbal Behavior 3: The Inward Cosmos 4: Genderizing the Pandanus Tree 5: The Phantom Cassowary 6: Femininity 7: Masculinity 8: Male Parthenogenesis: A Myth and Its Meaning 9: Conclusion Appendix A: "Tali Says": On the problem of symbolic meaning and its relationship to field conditions among the Sambia Appendix B: Nilutwo's Dreams Appendix C: The Myth of Cassowary Appendix D: On the Origins of Warfare and Initiation Appendix E: The Myth of Gandei References Name Index Subject Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/12/1994
      ISBN13: 9780226327495, 978-0226327495
      ISBN10: 0226327493
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      A Note on Language Foreword Robert A. LeVine Preface to the 1994 edition Preface Introduction 1: People of the Mountain Forest 2: Idioms and Verbal Behavior 3: The Inward Cosmos 4: Genderizing the Pandanus Tree 5: The Phantom Cassowary 6: Femininity 7: Masculinity 8: Male Parthenogenesis: A Myth and Its Meaning 9: Conclusion Appendix A: "Tali Says": On the problem of symbolic meaning and its relationship to field conditions among the Sambia Appendix B: Nilutwo's Dreams Appendix C: The Myth of Cassowary Appendix D: On the Origins of Warfare and Initiation Appendix E: The Myth of Gandei References Name Index Subject Index

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