A Case of Sorcery

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N98: Papua New Guinea, Folder 5: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Field data. Arapesh. Notes. Miscellaneous #5) (District of Columbia) (1932) , 2 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Typewritten notes, presumably by Reo Fortune, relate the story of Mehaut of Suapali. Mehaut went to another village to find clam-shell arm bracelets and was killed by two men who believed he would use the bracelets to enact sorcery on them. Typed on the back of a handwritten page, struck through. Undated.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Field notes
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Reo Fortune, 1903-1979
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 2
Page Range: 1-2
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Murder, Magic, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Papua Nova Guiné, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guineans
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Papua Nova Guiné