Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
The Kapauku live in the Central Highlands of western New Guinea, now Irian Jaya, Indonesia. This file includes eight works, all by the ethnographer Leopold Pospisil that cover the time period from 1954-1979. Topics include Kapauku economy, sociopolitical organization, religious and ceremonial life, political structure, warfare, kinship organization, and law, including internal and external changes in the Kapauku legal and political system as a result of colonization
Note:
Culture summary: Kapauku - Nancy Gratton and Ian Skoggard (file evaluation and indexing notes) - 1998 -- - Kapauku Papuans and their law - Leopold Pospisil - 1958 -- - Kapauku Papuan political structure - Leopold Pospisil - 1958 -- - Kapauku Papuan economy - Leopold Pospisil - 1963 -- - The Kapauku Papuans of West New Guinea - by Leopold J. Pospisil - 1978 -- - 'I am very sorry I cannot kill you any more': war and peace among the Kapauku - Leopold Pospisil - 1993 -- - The Kapauku Papuans and their kinship organization - By Leopold Pospisil - 1960 -- - Structural change and primitive law: consequences of a Papuan legal case - Leopold Pospisil - 1969 -- - Modern and traditional administration of justice in New Guinea - Leopold Pospisil - 1981
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Kapauku
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