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- ↑ Outside and Inside Meanings: Non-Verbal and Verbal Modalities of Agonistic Communication the Wiru of Papua New Guinea in Man and Culture in Oceania, Vol. 15
- ↑ Jeffrey L. Clark From Cults to Christianity: continuity and change in Takuru. The University of Adelaide Ph.D. Thesis 1985. OCLC Number: 220086599
