The Mountain Arapesh. Pt. 1. An Importing Culture
Author : Margaret Mead
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Page : 211 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
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Author : Margaret Mead
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Page : 211 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
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File Size : 18,52 MB
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Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351319906
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.
Author : Margaret Mead
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
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Author : Margaret Mead
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
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Author : Thomas Buckley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520340566
Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread image of a universal "menstrual taboo" as well as the common assumption of universal female subordination which underlies it. Contributing important new material and perspectives to our understanding of comparative gender politics and symbolism, it is of particular importance to those interested in anthropology, women's studies, religion, and comparative health systems.
Author : Gilbert Lewis
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 9780198234098
A serious illness may bring other events into focus. This book is about the circumstances surrounding an illness which struck a man in middle life, its impact on him and on the people of his West Sepik village. It records both failure and continuing belief the failure of local treatments,Western medicine, and of a great communal effort to bring a spirit to heal him. The issues of distress, isolation in illness, and the hope of relief are universal ones, but in this setting in New Guinea they have to be placed in a framework of tentative explanations because of the harsh materialconditions. To follow the course of this man's illness is to see how illness can reshape events and test social ties. The book unfolds a social drama, as it traces people's anxieties, the pressure upon them to take immediate action to try to remedy the situation, and their growing realization thatthey have failed.Through the text runs the problem of hope and belief in healing.
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library
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Page : 742 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Economics
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Author : Joan Gordan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 311081904X
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 1940
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