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- Title
Seeking personhood: Anthropological accounts and local concepts in Mount Hagen, Papua...
- Authors
Strathern, Andrew; Stewart, Pamela J.
- Abstract
Discusses the theory of personhood, through cross-cultural contexts of human action and experience, focusing on the concept of the noman, in the Mount Hagen area of Papa New Guinea. Ontological aspects associated with the noman; Interpretation of narratives depicting how people seek their personhood; Factors associated with the making and unmaking of a triad; Definition of a triad; Origin of an individual's sense of identity.
- Subjects
PAPUA New Guinea; PERSON schemas; HAGEN, Mount (Papua New Guinea)
- Publication
Oceania, 1998, Vol 68, Issue 3, p170
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1834-4461.1998.tb02664.x