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1 online resource (746 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 Arapesh who lived on the plains, both the men and the women of the mountain settlements were found to be, in Mead's word, maternal. The Mountain Arapesh exhibited qualities that many might consider feminine: they were, in general, passive, affectionate, and peaceloving. Though Mead partially explains the male's "femininity" as being due to the type of nourishment available to the Arapesh, she maintains social conditioning to be a factor in the type of lifestyle led by both sexes. Mead's study encapsulates all aspects of the Arapesh culture. She discusses betrothal and marriage customs, sexuality, gender roles, diet, religion, arts, agriculture, and rites of passage. In possibly a portent for the breakdown of traditional roles and beliefs in the latter part of the twentieth century, Mead discusses the purpose of rites of passage in maintaining societal values and social control. Mead also discovered that both male and female parents took an active role in raising their children. Furthermore, it was found that there were few conflicts over property: the Arapesh, having no concept of land ownership, maintained a peaceful existence with each other. In his new introduction to The Mountain Arapesh, Paul B. Roscoe assesses the importance of Mead's work in light of modern anthropological and ethnographic research, as well as how it fits into her own canon of writings. Roscoe discusses findings he culled from a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1991 to clarify some ambiguities in Mead's work. His travels also served to help reconstruct what had happened to the Arapesh since Mead's historic visit in the early 1930s |
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11. Origin of Yams from the Cassowary Mother Killed by Her Sons |
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Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Indigenous Studies.
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Anthropology.
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Arts.
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Ceremony.
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Culture.
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Gender Norms.
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Gender Rituals.
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Gender Roles.
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Marriage Customs.
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Maternal.
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Papua New Guinea.
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Religion & Spirituality.
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Ritual.
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Sexuality.
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Taboos.
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Women.
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Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roscoe, Paul B
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| ISBN |
9781351319911 |
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1351319914 |
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