The Biwat: Ethnography of the Mundugumor People..., August 27, 1972

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N103: Papua New Guinea, Folder 4: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Postfield materials. Mundugumor. Proposed book on Mundugumor, 1973. Planning file) (District of Columbia) (27 August 1972) , 10 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Typewritten essay titled 'The Biwat: Ethnography of the Mundugumor People of the Yuat River, Sepik District, Papua New Guinea,' by Margaret Mead, including material collected by Reo F. Fortune. Discusses the field work done by Mead and Fortune in 1932. A parenthetical notation on the first page reads 'experimental beginning to the Mundugumor assuming that it will be an AMNH [American Museum of Natural History] paper.' Dated August 27, 1972.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Essay
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 10
Page Range: 1-10
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Field work for anthropology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, East Sepik Province, East Sepik, Biwat
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, East Sepik Province