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Mountain Arapesh.
For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation. In contrast to the aggressive Ara...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Somerset :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Mountain Arapesh; Volume I; Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION; I. AN IMPORTING CULTURE; PREFACE; METHOD OF PRESENTATION; DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA; GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS; DAILY LIFE; THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH; COMPARATIVE NOTES ON BEACH ARAPESH VILLAGES; COMPARATIVE NOTES ON PLAINS ARAPESH VILLAGES; SUPPORTING MATERIALS; INTRODUCTION; HOUSE BUILDING; Planning a Hamlet; House Types; Steps in House Building; METHODS OF CARRYING AND STORING; USE OF COCONUT PALM LEAVES AND OF BASKETRY TECHNIQUES; FIRE-MAKING.
- CORD AND STRING MAKINGCLOTHING; Making a G String; Women's Aprons; Belt and Armband Making; Beadwork; Dog Teeth Stringing; Decorated Bark Belts; TOBACCO GROWING AND SMOKING; ARECA NUT CHEWING; GARDENING; SAGO WORKING; Cutting the Sago; Construction of the Washing Apparatus; Beach Deviations; HUNTING AND TRAPPING; Rat Trap; Large Game Snare Trap; Pig Trap; Deadfall; Bird Snare; COOKING; Cooking Utensils; Butchering a Pig; Dishes made of Sago; Taro and Coconut Croquettes; IMPORTS AND MOUNTAIN VERSIONS OF IMPORTS; LOCAL ARTIFACTS, CRUDER FORMS OF BEACH TYPES.
- LOCAL ARTIFACTS, CRUDER FORMS OF PLAINS TYPESIMPORTS WHICH THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO COPY; THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH SEEN AS AN IMPORTING CULTURE; GLOSSARY AND GAZETTEER; II. SUPERNATURALISM; PREFACE; METHODS OF COLLECTING AND PRESENTING THE MATERIALS; THE PLACE OF THIS SECTION IN THE SERIES; CLASSIFICATION OF LEVELS OF CONCRETE MATERIALS; METHOD OF TREATMENT ADOPTED IN THIS SECTION; SPECIFIC METHODS OF FIELD-WORK USED AMONG THE ARAPESH; GENERAL FORMULATIONS OF ARAPESH CULTURE; ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE NATURAL WORLD; Cosmology; Treatment of the Past; Plants and Animals.
- The marsalai and the LandThe Position of Magic; ATTITUDES TOWARDS HUMAN BEINGS; The Basic Sex Dichotomy; Outline of the Rituals of Male Purification; Female Analogues of Male Rituals; Attitude towards Blood; The Evidence from the Rites de Passage; The Formulations about Growth and Food; The Treatment of Aggression; Incest; The Unaggressive Practice of Hunting and Gardening; DEATH AS AN ANOMALY; The Position of Sorcery; Integration of Attitudes towards Death; The Significance of the Categories of Exuviae; The Attribution of Death to an Outside Group; SUMMARY; SELECTED ARAPESH MYTHS.
- CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THESE MYTHS WERE RECORDEDTALES DEALING WITH THE VARIOUS TYPES OF ORIGINS, OF NATURAL PHENOMENA, CULTURAL USAGES, ETC.; 1. The Stones near Tapena; 2. The Hornbill and the Cassowary; 3. The Times when Penes were Long; 4. The Discovery of the Use of the Pepper Plant; 5. The Pigs who Plotted to Fasten Men; 6. The Origin of Death; Version One; Version Two; 7. Why Dogs No Longer Talk; Version One; Version Two; 8. The Dog and the Wallaby; 9. How They Kill the Pleiades; 10. The Sago Cutting at which the Birds Got their Characteristics.