Research Catalog

Metamorphosis of the cassowaries : Umeda society, language and ritual / by Alfred Gell.

Title: Metamorphosis of the cassowaries : Umeda society, language and ritual / by Alfred Gell.
Author: Gell, Alfred.
Publication: London : Athlone Press ; [Atlantic Highlands], N.J. : Humanities Press ; Tiptree, Eng. : distributed by Tiptree Book Services, 1975.

Description

x, 366 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 51

Note

Bibliography (note)

Call Number

QOA (Monographs on social anthropology, no. 51

LCCN

76374133

OCLC

Author

Gell, Alfred.

Title

Metamorphosis of the cassowaries : Umeda society, language and ritual / by Alfred Gell.

Imprint

London : Athlone Press ; [Atlantic Highlands], N.J. : Humanities Press ; Tiptree, Eng. : distributed by Tiptree Book Services, 1975.

Series

Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 51

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 360-362.

Local Subject

Umeda (Papua New Guinea people)

Dance -- New Guinea.

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- New Guinea.

Bird dances.

Research Call Number

QOA (Monographs on social anthropology, no. 51