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Orokaiva : OJ23.

Orokaiva refers to a number of culturally similar ethnic groups concentrated in the Popondetta district of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. This collection of 31 documents (30 in English and 1 in French) is about the Orokaiva from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Williams provides a general...

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Corporate Author: Human Relations Area Files, inc.
Other Authors: Haddon, Alfred C. 1855-1940., Crocombe, R. G., Dakeyne, R. B., Newton, Janice., Burau, Cromwell., Ferraris, Robert., Schwimmer, Eric, 1923-, Williams, F. E., Chinnery, E. W. Pearson 1887-1972., Hogbin, G. R. 1938-, Kearney, G. E., Keesing, Felix Maxwell, 1902-1961., Morawetz, David., Oostermeyer, W. J., Reay, Marie, 1922-2004., Rimoldi, Max., Waddell, Eric.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2004-
Series:EHRAF world cultures. Oceania.
Subjects:
Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people)
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea > Civilization.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Five new religious cults in British New Guinea / E.W.P. Chinnery and A.C. Haddon
  • Modern Orokaiva feast ; Communal cash cropping among the Orokaiva ; Four Orokaiva cash croppers / R.G. Crocombe
  • Land, work, and productivity at Inonda / R.G. Crocombe and G.R. Hogbin
  • Changes in land use and settlement among the Yega ; Co-operatives at Yega ; Village and town in New Guinea / R.B. Dakeyne
  • Orokaiva marriage / G.R. Hogbin
  • Cognitive capacity among the Orokaiva / George E. Kearney
  • Papuan Orokaiva vs Mt. Lamington / Felix M. Keesing
  • Cultural summary, Orokaiva / Christopher S. Latham
  • Land tenure conversion in the northern district of Papua / David Morawetz
  • Feasting for oil palm ; Orokaiva production and change ; Orokaiva warfare and production ; Women and modern marriage among the Orokaivans / Janice Newton
  • Twelve Orokaiva traders / W.J. Oostermeyer and Joanne Gray
  • Social control amongst the Orokaiva / Marie Reay
  • Land tenure and land use among the Mount Lamington Orokaiva / Max Rimoldi, assisted by Cromwell Burau and Robert Ferraris
  • Cultural consequences of a volcanic eruption experienced by the Mount Lamington Orokaiva / Eric G. Schwimmer
  • Exchange in the social structure of the Orokaiva ; Friendship and kinship, an attempt to relate two anthropological concepts ; Objects of meditation, myth and praxis ; Reciprocity and structure, a semiotic analysis of some Orokaiva exchange data ; The self and the product, concepts of work in comparative perspective / Erik Schwimmer
  • Mythe du corps bouche / Eric Schwimmer
  • Virgin birth ; What did the eruption mean? / Erik G. Schwimmer
  • Organisation of production and distribution among the Orokaiva / E.W. Waddell and P.A. Krinks
  • Orokaiva magic / F.E. Williams ; with a foreword by R.R. Marett
  • Orokaiva society / F.E. Williams ; with an introduction by Sir Hubert Murray.

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