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Faces of Culture

S1 · E21 — The Asmat of New Guinea: A Case Study in Religion and Magic

S1:E21 · The Asmat of New Guinea: A Case Study in Religion and Magic

Episodes

26 episodes in this season

E1

The Nature of Anthropology

28 min

E2

The Nature of Culture

28 min

E3

How Cultures Are Studied

28 min

E4

Language and Communication

28 min

E5

Psychological Anthropology

28 min

E6

Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology

28 min

E7

Patterns of Subsistence: Food Foragers and Pastoralists

28 min

E8

Patterns of Subsistence: The Food Producers

28 min

E9

Economic Anthropology

28 min

E10

The Highland Maya: A Case Study in Economic Anthropology

28 min

E11

Sex and Marriage

28 min

E12

Family and Household

28 min

E13

The Yucatec Maya: A Case Study in marriage and the Family

28 min

E14

Kinship and Descent (Part I)

28 min

E15

Kinship and Descent (Part II)

28 min

E16

Age, Common Interest, and Stratification

28 min

E17

The Aymara: A Case Study in Social Stratification

28 min

E18

Political Organization

28 min

E19

Social Control

28 min

E20

Religion and Magic

28 min

E21
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The Asmat of New Guinea: A Case Study in Religion and Magic

28 min

E22

The Arts

28 min

E23

New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts

28 min

E24

Cultural Change

28 min

E25

Cricket the Trobriand Way: A Case Study in Cultural Change

28 min

E26

The Future of Humanity

28 min