Retrieving a valuable record of past research in the notes taken by Mead and Fortune during three months spent in Papua New Guinea, McDowell constructs a systematic ethnography of the Mundugumor people as they were in 1932.
Read More
Retrieving a valuable record of past research in the notes taken by Mead and Fortune during three months spent in Papua New Guinea, McDowell constructs a systematic ethnography of the Mundugumor people as they were in 1932.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
G-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1560980621. STiff crisp book, unmarked but for name to front endpaper; in glossy dust jacket with short corner tear and tiny edge chip.; 9.13 X 6.22 X 1.18 inches; 337 pages.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Textual photos, charts, tables. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. 23x16cm, xiv, 337 pp. Contents: Introduction; Factors Shaping the Data; Reconstituting Mundugumor Ethnography; The Plan of the Ethnography; The Mundugumor in Context; Environmental Context and Demography; The Social Context; The Historical Context; Religion; Water and Bush Spirits; Souls, Death, and Ghosts; Sorcery; Magic, Ritual, and Belief; Initiation; Myth and Folktale; Kinship & Marriage; Kinship Terminology; Kinship Behavior; Marriage; The Marriage Process; Clans; Ropes; Kinship, Exchange, and Ropes: A Reinterpretation; Intergenerational Exchange; An Alternative Interpretation of Rope; Mead and the Mundugumor; Ethos; Variation Contradiction.
