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Language and Material Culture on the Sepik Coast of Papua New Guinea: Using Social Network Analysis to Simulate, Graph, Identify, and Analyze Social and Cultural Boundaries Between Communities

Pages 3-32 | Received 24 Feb 2009, Accepted 25 Jun 2009, Published online: 09 Apr 2010

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