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Weiner, James F
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- Jimmy Weiner
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-2020
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James F Weiner received his PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University in 1984. He has conducted field work among the Foi of Papua New Guinea and has written several books on their myth and social structure, their poetry and geography, and their myth in relation to psychoanalytic theory. He taught at the ANU, University of Manchester and was Professor at the University of Adelaide 1994-1998. In 1998 he became a full-time consultant anthropologist.
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Papua New Guinea
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anthropologist; constultant; academic
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Entered from deposit description on 9 April 2013
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ANU E Press, http://epress.anu.edu.au/author/james-weiner (accessed on 9 April 2013)