Echoes of the Tambaran : masculinity, history and the subject in the work of Donald F. Tuzin / edited by David Lipset and Paul Roscoe.

"In the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea, ritual culture was dominated by the Tambaran - a male tutelary spirit that acted as a social and intellectual guardian or patron to those under its aegis as they made their way through life. To Melanesian scholarship, the cultural and psychological anthr...

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