Research Catalog

Title

Papuans of the Trans-Fly, by F.E. Williams ... Government Anthropologist, Territory of Papua.

Author

Williams, F. E. (Francis Edgar)

Publication

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1936.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 452 pages, XIX leaves of plates, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, tables, maps (1 color), music; 23 cm.

Summary

P.49-50; Brief comment on the resemblance of population of the Morehead district to the Australian Aborigine.

Uniform Title

Report of the Papuan government on anthropology ; 15.

Subject

• Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Papua
• Papuans
• Indigenous peoples > Pacific > Papuans
• Ethnology
• Papoea's
• Papua New Guinea (PNG)
• Australia
• Papua New Guinea > Papua

Note

• Presented as thesis for the B. Sc. degree, Oxford, 1934. cf. p. [v]
• "Fifteenth in the series of anthropological reports published by the Papuan Government."--p. [v]
• Appendix I: Physical anthropology, by Dr. L.H. Dudley Buxton: p. [381]-384.

Contents

The Morehead district -- A sketch of Keraki life -- Linguistic areas -- Ethnic grouping -- Keraki tribes -- Sections and moieties -- Totems and totem-groups -- Family and kin -- Exchange-marriage and exogamy -- Ceremonies of birth and early childhood -- Initiation and the bull-roarer -- The pride of the food-producer -- Personality and leadership -- The regulation of conduct -- The head-hunters' raid -- Keraki myths -- The magic of gardening and rain-making -- Sorcery -- Beliefs and ceremonies surrounding death.

LCCN

36021469

OCLC

• ocm00582727
• 582727
• SCSB-155190

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library