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Publication details [#12652]
Goldman, Laurence. 1993. The culture of coincidence. Accident and Absolute Liability in Huli. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology). Clarendon Press.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
0-19-827873-X
Annotation
In this innovative study, combining law, linguistics and anthropology, the author demonstrates that, with regard to the rarely researched concept of accident, Western and non-Western (Papua, New Guinea) juristic ideologies exhibit startling similarities.