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Article: Worter und wandel: Ethnographische zugange uber die sprache.(Review)
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- Oceania
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- September 1, 2001
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By Hans Fischer.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 2000.
Pp.313, bib., 3 maps, tables.
78.00 DM
The series 'Materialien zur Kultur der Wampar' is intended to provide us with an exhaustive picture of the culture of the Wampar who live in the coastal hinterlands along the Markham River in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Basing himself on several periods of field research over a period of more than forty years, the editor, Hans Fischer aims to portray Wampar culture both in terms of processes of historical change and in relation to the 'outside world'. In doing so, Fischer is mainly relying on primary field data, which, lie says, should ...