Grass-clearing man a factional ethnography of life in the New Guinea Highlands
"This accessible ethnography is a factional account that depicts life in a stateless society of the New Guinea Highlands during the twentieth century. It explores a series of related events from the viewpoint of a fictional character, "Ongol," who lived his life in the Was valley. Alt...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Long Grove, Ill.
Waveland Press, Inc.
c2009, 2009
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| Series: | Anthropology online
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| Collection: | Anthropology Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- A Birth and a Death
- Growing Up and Ensuring Health
- Courting, Incest, and Sickness
- Revenge and Armed Conflict
- Marriage, In-Laws, and Sex
- Everyday Life, Subsistence, and Famine
- Some Ghostly Encounters and Perils of Polygamy
- Making It Big, Poison, and Sorcery
- Rituals of Well-Being
- Encounters with New Cults
- New Exchanges in a Changing World
- The Stateless Order
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200)