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Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions

Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions

Hardcover

Comparative ReligionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521416914
ISBN13: 9780521416917
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 14 1994
Pages: 568
Weight: 2.13
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and the logic of retribution, Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of payback, both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people pay back and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.

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Trompf, Garry W.

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Comparative Religion