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dc.contributor.authorMitchell, William E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-10T05:33:20Z
dc.date.available2024-05-10T05:33:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90149
dc.description.abstractFrom 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Lujere of Papua New Guinea’s Upper Sepik River Basin. At a time when it was not yet common to make colonial agencies a subject of anthropological study, Mitchell carefully located his research on Lujere practices in the framework of a history of colonization that surrounded the Lujere with a shifting array of Western institutions, dramatically changing their society forever. This work has been well known among anthropologists of Oceania ever since, but the bulk of it has remained unpublished until now. In this major new work, Mitchell revisits his earlier research with a threepart study on: the history of colonial rule in the region; the social organization of Lujere life at the time; and the particular forms of affliction, witchcraft, and curing that preoccupied some of the people among whom he lived. This is a magisterial contribution to the ethnography of Papua New Guinea and it is sure to be an invaluable source for scholars of Oceania, of medical anthropology, and of the anthropology of kinship, myth, and ritual.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherCultural & Social
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.titleA Witch's Hand
dc.title.alternativeCuring, Killing, Kinship, and Colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea’s Upper Sepik River Basin
dc.typebook
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781912808458
oapen.relation.isbn9781912808854
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintHAU
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