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Author Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.

Title Naven, a survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture of the culture of a New Guinea tribe drawn from three points of view.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1958.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DU740 .B3 1958    Available  ---
Edition 2d ed.
Description xix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 302-303. Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents Methods of presentation -- The naven ceremonies -- The concepts of structure and function -- Cultural premises relevant to the wau--laua relationship -- Sorcery and vengeance -- Structural analysis of the wau-laua relationship -- The sociology of naven -- Problems and methods of approach -- The ethos of Iatmul culture : the men -- The ethos of Iatmul culture : the women -- Attitudes towards death -- The preferreed types -- Ethological contrast, competition and schismogenesis -- The expression of ethos in naven -- The eidos of Iatmul culture -- Epilogue 1936 -- Epilogue 1958.
Subject Iatmul (Papua New Guinean people)
Iatmul (Papua New Guinean people)
Naven (Iatmul rite)
Naven (Iatmul rite)
Rites and ceremonies -- New Guinea.
Rites and ceremonies.
New Guinea.
Ethnology -- New Guinea.
Ethnology.