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Mythology and land rights on Woegoarticle 1975 • Sack, Peter G.
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article reexamines Hogbin's writing on Wogeo land tenure and culture heroes, in order to critique the thesis that culture heroes and myths serve as deeds to land and territory. The author asserts instead that the culture heroes do not sanction o...