Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: Exchanging Skin

by Tony Crook

The Min peoples of Papua New Guinea are renowned for their secret male initiation rituals and have proven to be one of the most enigmatic cultures in anthropological experience. This study analyses the 'Min problem', and argues that the root of this long-standing interpretative impasse has been in Anthropology's view of secrecy and knowledge.

Because Barth's pioneering work in this small corner of Melanesia still exerts an important influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019726400X
• ISBN13: 9780197264003
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"