Keesing 1982

Links

• Copy in the Internet Archive

References

Sections

• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • The rite
  • Powerful substances
  • Offerings
  • First fruits
  • The practitioners
  • Role of trance
• 6.10 Tabu
  • Food restrictions (+ kin)
  • Place taboos
  • Freedom from tabu
• 6.13 Trade, exchange, distribution and transfer of possession
  • Currency
  • Sacrifice to the ancestors

Words

• Kwaio: nunu(-) shadow, image, picture shadow, image, picture; the shade of s.o. who wanders in dreams and talks to people