Do the Banaro Really Exist? Going Back After Richard Thurnwald

Bibliographic Data

ID2045968
AuthorsBernard Juillerat (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume71
Issue1
Pages46-66
Publication date2000-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOceania (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4461.2000.tb02723.x
OpenAlexW1999082337
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited8

Between 1913 and 1915, the Austro-German anthropologist Richard Thurnwald explored the Sepik area with the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde expedition. In the last months of his stay, he worked with two Banaro informants and later on published his famous study on that society. Eighty five years after, the only anthropological reference on the Banaro is still his own articles. Bernard Juillerat spent four months among the Banaro in 1989, discussing with the people Thurnwald's analyses on the social structure and the mundu partnership. A book was published in French in 1993. This article is a short abstract of the book, where the author discusses Thurnwald's interpretations and gives ethnographic material on men's house ritual and initiation. Some more anthropological information is given on the transformations of Banaro society in the meantime

Archaeology · Art history · Ethnography · General partnership · German · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Health and Education · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law

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