The Ethnography of the Western Tribe of Torres Straits

The Ethnography of the Western Tribe of Torres Straits
Author: Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1890
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

Part I, p.297-387; Location of Kowraregas, Muralegas, Italegas, Badulegas, Gumulegas, Kulkalegas, Massilegas; arithmetic, counting; diseases and native remedies; plant foods, cooking; cannibalism; narcotics; crime and punishment; trade in canoes; sexual relations; religious beliefs, soul, future life, spirits, ancestral cults, fetishism, superstitions, magic and divination; government, leaders; weapons, bows and arrows, javelin and throwing stick, stone and wooden clubs; laws of real property, inheritance; punishments; etiquette for meeting, hospitality; totemic food taboos, speech restrictions; Trade 1) intra - insular, 2) with Daudai, 3) with Cape York; exchange values; war and fighting (brief versions of myths given); hunting and fishing; agriculture; social relationships, marriage, widows, abortion and infanticide; education, games and amusements, dancing (masks, body decorations); body painting and scarification, hair dressing, ornaments; cranial deformation; painting (pigments, brushes); music and musical instruments, gives 4 line song set to music with separate free translation (Thursday Island), words of 4 songs (two from Mabuiag with free translation, two from Muralug in English only); navigation, canoes; fire, string making; p.388-437; Part II, deals with each island separately - Saibai, Dauan, Boigu, Mabuiag, Badu, Tud, Yam, Nagir, Waraber, Masig, Damut, Moa, Muralug; plates show cicatrice patterns, headdress, bow and arrows; map shows native names, English names given in separate list.

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 5, Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 5, Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders
Author: A. C. Haddon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0521179890

The fifth in a series compiling the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo. Originally published in 1904, it contains information on the societies and belief structures of the indigenous peoples living in the western islands of the Strait.

Cambridge and the Torres Strait

Cambridge and the Torres Strait
Author: Anita Herle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1998-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521584616

Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work.

The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings. The King of the Wood

The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings. The King of the Wood
Author: James George Frazer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1911
Genre: Magic
ISBN:

Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

Cunningham Memoir

Cunningham Memoir
Author: Royal Irish Academy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1894
Genre: Learned institutions and societies
ISBN: