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Motherless sons: `Divine Kings' and `Partible Persons' in Melanesia and Polynesia.
- Source :
- Man; Dec92, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p697, 21p, 1 Diagram
- Publication Year :
- 1992
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Abstract
- Explores the opposed implications of the `partible person' and the `divine king' in a single instance of a Melanesian chiefly society, the Austronesian-speaking Amoamo Mekeo of Papua New Guinea. Comparison of the politico-ritual capacities of Mekeo commoners and hereditary officials in marital and mortuary exchange; Personal partibility vs. heroic `hierarchy'; More.
- Subjects :
- MANNERS & customs
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00251496
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Man
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9302110354
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2804170