Publications
Publication details [#26166]
Goldman, Laurence. 1992. The culture of coincidence: Accident and absolute liability in Huli. Clarendon. xvi + 443 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This book examines accident and liability ideas of the Huli of Papua New Guinea, whose contention rhetoric supports ideas about accident and thus limits personal liability for another's misfortune, and claims that these ideas parallel Western ones.
