ISBN:
0415228980
,
0415228999
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 159 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
306/.089/9912
Keywords:
Arapesh (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) - Conditions sociales
;
Arapesh (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) - Population
;
Arapesh (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) - Rites et cérémonies
;
Arapesh (volk)
;
Dorpen
;
Sociale organisatie
;
Évolution sociale - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Ilahita
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people) Population
;
Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people) Rites and ceremonies
;
Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people) Social conditions
;
Social evolution
;
Soziale Situation
;
Arapesh
;
Ilahita (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) - Mœurs et coutumes
;
Ilahita (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
;
Arapesh
;
Soziale Situation
Abstract:
"This text is an highly accessible ethnography which explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in New Guinea. This village, unlike others in the region, expanded at an uncharacteristically fast rate more than a century ago and has maintained its large size and importance until the present day. Donald Tuzin, drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in the village, studies the reasons behind this unusual population growth. He discovers the behaviour and policies of the Tambaran, the all-male society which was the back bone of Ilahitan society, and examines the effect of outside influences such as World War II on the village."--BOOK JACKET.
