Ceremonies and Stories
in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N49: Papua New Guinea, Folder 6: Admiralty Islands. Mead and Fortune field trip to Manus, 1928-29. Field data. Joint field notes. Miscellaneous #1) (District of Columbia) (1928) , 3 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Typewritten notes: 1) 'Kan he finished Time and Tchani of Tcholai' briefly discusses a ceremony held in Luluai's house; 2) 'Kanian Tchaaano' discusses a ceremony and feast involving a turtle - dated January 8 [1929]; 3) 'Story of the Luluai and the Tchinal.' Reo Fortune, in his book Manus Religion, describes the tchinal as a sort of magic charm.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Content Type
- Field notes
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Margaret Mead, 1901-1978, Reo Fortune, 1903-1979
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 3
- Page Range
- 1-3
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Manus Island, Manus Province, Manus
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural