Daggers of New Guinea: distribution, styles and functions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Daggers of New Guinea: distribution, styles and functions

Original language description

This review is focused on bone daggers, the objects, which were widespread during colonial era, as well as in earlier times in New Guinea. Production and use of these daggers has decreased due to modernization occurring among inhabitants of the island. These, indeed specific tools, were manufactured from bones gained from cassowaries, crocodiles and humans. The description of the main types of bones daggers and knives linked to particular areas of New Guinea are examined in the review. Article also follows its aesthetic values, functionalities, along with its social importance and cultural symbolism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Anthropologia Integra

ISSN

1804-6657

e-ISSN

1804-6665

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

7-15

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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