The Social Organization Of Dobu
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Sorcerers of Dobu
| Author | : R. F. Fortune |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136547258 |
Ever since its first publication in 1932, Sorcerers of Dobu has been recognized as one of the great triumphs of anthropological research and interpretation in the field of ethnography. A rich source of information on primitive psychology, the book presents sociological analysis of the complex tribal organisation of the Dobuans. Originally published in 1932
Dobu
| Author | : Susanne Kuehling |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2021-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0824893875 |
This is an ethnography of Dobu, a Massim society of Papua New Guinea, which has been renowned in social anthropology since Reo Fortune's Sorcerers of Dobu (1932). Focusing on exchange and its underlying ethics, this book explores the concept of the person in the Dobu world view. The book examines major aspects of exchange such as labor, mutual support, apologetic gifts, revenge and punishment, kula exchange, and mortuary gifts. It discusses in detail the characteristics of small gifts (such as betel nuts), big gifts (kula valuables, pigs, and large yams) and money as they appear in exchange contexts. The ethnography begins with an analysis of the construct of the Dobu person, and sets out to examine everyday practices and values. The belief system (incorporating witches, sorcerers, and a Christian God) is shown to have a powerful influence on individual conduct due to its panoptic character. The institutions that link Dobu with the outside world are examined in terms of the ideology concerning money: the Church receives offerings for God; the difficulties faced by trade-store owners evince conflicting notions concerning monetary wealth. The last two chapters delve into lived experience in two major domains of Dobu exchange: kula and the sagali feast.
Essays on Social Organisation and Values
| Author | : Raymond Firth |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2021-03-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000324516 |
In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years. All these essays relate in different ways to his continuing interest in the study of social process, especially in the significance within a social context of individual choice and decision. Although some specialist studies are included, e.g. the group of papers dealing with the Polynesian island of Tikopia, the main themes of the book are broad ones and there are important general essays on such topics as social change; social structure and organization; modern society in relation to scientific and technological progress; and the study of values, mysticism, and religion by anthropologists. There is also a hitherto unpublished chapter on anthropology as a developing science.
Scale and Social Organization
| Author | : Fredrik Barth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Agricultural Economics Bibliography
| Author | : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 1940 |
| Genre | : Agriculture |
| ISBN | : |
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
| Author | : Bronislaw Malinowski |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 535 |
| Release | : 2014-04-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317677536 |
Bronislaw Malinowski’s pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is ‘to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.’ Through vivid evocations of Kula life, including the building and launching of canoes, fishing expeditions and the role of myth and magic amongst the Kula people, Malinowski brilliantly describes an inter-island system of exchange - from gifts from father to son to swapping fish for yams - around which an entire community revolves. A classic of anthropology that did much to establish the primacy of painstaking fieldwork over the earlier anecdotal reports of travel writers, journalists and missionaries, it is a compelling insight into a world now largely lost from view. With a new foreword by Adam Kuper.
Kinship and Social Organization
| Author | : American Museum of Natural History |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Anthropology |
| ISBN | : |
Survey covering many tribes and areas; p.43-44; Brief notes on Australian kinship terminologies bifurcate merging plan, terms from Kakadu (Northern Australia), Arunta and Mungarai, Radcliffe-Browns two types noted, 1) Kariera & Urabunna of Lake Eyre, 2) Dieri, Central Australia from the; Arunta to the Anula and Mara, Mardudhunera of Western Australia p.61-91; Structural analysis of kinship by Kingsley Davis and W. Lloyd Warner, listed separately; p.275-283; Australian sections and subsections by R.M. and C.H. Berndt, listed separately; p.301-357; Murngin social organization by W. Lloyd Warner, Murngin social organization by William Ewart Lawrence and George Peter Murdock, Murngin social organization by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown Murngin (Wulamba) social organization by Ronald M. Berndt,; The Murngin moral by David Maybury-Lewis, all listed separately.
