The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society

Richard Eves

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Empowering bodies, engendering bodies from colonialsim to cash crops Christianity, conversion and magic embodying kinship - shame, sex and shell valuables other bodies, other powers - the world of non-human beings the origins of Taro and the culture of famine the magical world of the garden feasting and fame - finishing the dead and lifting up the names of the living.

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