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by Ian Hogbin (Author) "Early anthropologists were fascinated by the study of religion..." (more)
Key Phrases: nibek monsters, village lewa, coconut fluid, New Guinea, Nat Karamwang, Urem Tariga (more...)
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Ian Hogbin belongs to anthropology's heroic age. He was a member of the brilliant between-the-wars generation that included Raymond Firth, Reo Fortune, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Hortense Powdermaker, all of whom pioneered modern field research in the insular South Pacific. The Island of Menstruating Men was a path-breaking exploration of gender in Wogeo when first published. Today it remains an important full-length study of a Melanesian religion, examining it in relation to other facets of culture-mythology, beliefs about illness and death, growth and maturity, magic, social structure, and morality. It is an articulate, insightful examination of the meaning of tradition and of the integration of culture. It is also a captivating account of ethnocentrism and the Wogeo's justification for it, exemplifying, in miniature, what appears to be one of the great problems of the human species.

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Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Hayano, Road through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropology in Highland Papua New Guinea (ISBN 9780881335057); Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Rituals in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577661016); and Sillitoe-Sillitoe, Grass-Clearing Man: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands (ISBN 9781577666011).

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  • Paperback: 203 pages
  • Publisher: Waveland Press (February 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0881338842
  • ISBN-13: 978-0881338843
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,106,753 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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