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"The Vailala madness" and other essays / Francis Edgar Williams ; edited, with an introd., by Erik Schwimmer.
- Title
- "The Vailala madness" and other essays / Francis Edgar Williams ; edited, with an introd., by Erik Schwimmer.
- Author
- Williams, F. E. (Francis Edgar)
- Publication
- Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, c1977.
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- Additional Authors
- Schwimmer, Eric, 1923-
- Description
- 432 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- PART 1: 1. TRADING VOYAGES:MAGIC OF IMPERSONATION: -- 2. Bull-roarers are not like masks. -- 3. Sex affliation. -- 4. Disease as a main source of intellectual interest. -- 5. Love and the airplane.
- PART 2: 1.TRADING VOYAGES FROM GULF OF PAPUA: growth of the Bevaia trade; bevaia magic; myth in relation to bevaia magic. 2. Bull roarers in the Papuan Gulf. 3. Sex affliation and its implications
- PART 3: NATIVES OF LAKE KUTUBU, PAPUA: matieral culture; social organization; magic, sorcery and disease and its treatment; death anf after-life; Kutubu stories
- PART 4: THE VAILALA MADNESS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE CEREMONIES IN THE GULF DIVISION: 1. The Vailala madness; nervous and physical symptoms, origin of the vailala madenss. -- 2. Destruction of ceremonies in the Gulf division. -- 3. The Vailala madness in retrospect. -- 4. Creed of the government anthropologist.
- ISBN
- 0824805194 :
- LCCN
- ^^^76041133^//r902
- OCLC
- 2954332
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library