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Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies.Harrison, Simon J. is the author of 'Stealing People's Names History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology', published 0016 under ISBN 9780521385046 and ISBN 0521385040.
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