Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village
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ethnographic fieldwork
familial obligations Melanesia
Father's Elder Brother
Father's Sisters
Female Cross Cousin
Follow
Huon Gulf
kinship roles in New Guinea communities
kinship systems analysis
Kinsmen
life cycle rituals
Male Cross Cousin
marriage
Maternal Uncles
Melanesian anthropology
Melanesian social structure
Mother's Brothers
Mother's Elder Sisters
Mother's Younger Sister
New Guinea village
Opposite Sex
Persona
political systems
Port Moresby
professional anthropologist
Schneider Point
social structure Busama
Uterine
Uterine Nephew
Wife's Sister's Husband
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781845200008
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1963
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The economic and political systems, legal code and religious beliefs of the people of the New Guinea village of Busama were analysed by H. Ian Hogbin in his earlier work, Transformation Scene (1951). In this new study founded on field work carried out at intervals over a seven year period, he is concerned primarily with the individual in his relations with the kinship structure. He takes a typical Busama through a full span of life, from birth through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and marriage to maturity and death; and he shows how each stage in the individual's life involves a change in his kinship relationships and responsibilities. This approach gives the professional anthropologist a set of carefully presented data analysed in line with the contemporary emphasis on seeing the relations between kin in the context of the local community, and it also offers the general reader an enjoyable and authentic account of the intimacies of Melanesian life.
H. Ian Hogbin is the author of Transformation Scene (1951).
