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Author Stephen, Michele.

Title A'aisa's gifts : a study of magic and the self / Michele Stephen
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 381 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 13
Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 13.
Contents From manifest to hidden -- The visible ordering of things -- Manifest and concealed -- From visible things: fieldwork 1969-1971 -- To hidden things: fieldwork 1980-1982 -- A distinctive mode of imagination -- Dreaming and the hidden self -- Dreams -- A hidden self -- Dreams and self-knowledge -- The sorrows of knowledge -- The traditions of secret knowledge -- Two dream diviners: Josephina and Janet -- Two men of knowledge: Alex and Francis -- Observing a man of knowledge: Aisaga -- Learning "Sorcery" unawares -- The sorrows of acquiring knowledge -- A'aisa's gifts -- Magic, self, and autonomous imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology
Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Philosophy, Mekeo.
Magic, Mekeo.
Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea
Self (Philosophy) -- Papua New Guinea
Dreams.
Dreams
dreams.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Dreams
Ethnopsychology
Magic, Mekeo
Manners and customs
Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology
Philosophy, Mekeo
Self (Philosophy)
Traumdeutung
Ethnopsychologie
Magie
Selbst
Magie.
Zelf.
Mekeo (volk)
Mekeo (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Psychologie.
Mekeo (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Rites et cérémonies.
Philosophie mekeo.
Magie mekeo.
Ethnopsychologie -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Soi (philosophie)
Rêves.
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
Subject Papua New Guinea
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Mekeo.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94024807
ISBN 9780520915275
0520915275
058512986X
9780585129860