Language:
English
Pages:
XXXVI, 452 Seiten, 19 Tafeln, 2 Faltblätter
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Anthropology. Territorium Papua 15
Keywords:
Papua-Neuguinea Ethnie, Neuguinea
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Ethnographie
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Exogamie
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Initiation
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Übergangsritual
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Ritual und Zeremonie
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Landwirtschaft
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Soziale Kontrolle
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Mythos und Legende
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Regenzauber
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Magie
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Tod
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / by Professor A. C. Haddon -- List of illustrations -- Note on orthography and pronunciation -- 1. The Morehead distrct -- 2. A sketch of Keraki life -- 3. Linguistic areas -- 4. Ethnic grouping -- 5. Keraki tribes -- 6. Sections and moieties -- 7 Totems and totem-groups -- 8. Family and kin -- 9. Exchange-marriage and exogamy -- 10. Ceremonies of birth and early childhood -- 11. Initiation and the bull-roarer -- 12. The pride of the food-producer -- 13. Personality and leadership -- 14. The regulation of conduct -- 15. The head-hunters' raid -- 16. Keraki myths -- 17. The magic of gardening and rain-making -- 18. Sorcery -- 19. Beliefs and ceremonies surrounding death -- Appendix I: Physical anthropology, by Dr. L.H. Dudley Buxton -- Appendix II. Additional myths and folk-tales -- Appendix III. Personal enhancement -- Appendix IV. Some notes on material culture, etc. -- Index
Note:
"The present work is the fifteenth in the series of anthropological reports published by the Papuan Government." (Preface)"completed in June 1934 at Oxford, when the book was presented as thesis for the B. Sc. degree." (Preface)
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Thesis (B.Sc.), University of Oxford, 1934
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