Arapesh 1931-2: Kinship, Social Organization, Economic Relationships

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N96: Papua New Guinea, Folder 3: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Field data. Arapesh. Notes. Kinship, social organization and economic reciprocities) (District of Columbia) (1931) , 116 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Typewritten notes, with handwritten notations, titled 'Arapesh 1931-2: Kinship, Social Organization, Economic Relationships' discuss kinship roles and relative functions; payments for blood; attitudes toward the past; use of personal names; names for pigs; kinship terminology; marriage; gens; and ancestral spirits.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Field notes
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 116
Page Range: 1-116
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Cultural norms, Kin relationships, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Papua Nova Guiné, Papua New Guinea, Arapesh
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Papua Nova Guiné