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Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village

Bibliographic Data

ID2883567
AuthorsRichard F Salisbury, H Ian Hogbin
Year1963
Volume36
Issue4
Pages456
Publication date1963-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2754706
OpenAlexW2095941707
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The economic and political systems, legal code and religious beliefs of the people of the New Guinea village of Busama were analysed by H. Ian Hogbin in his earlier work, Transformation Scene (1951). In this new study founded on field work carried out at intervals over a seven year period, he is concerned primarily with the individual in his relations with the kinship structure. He takes a typical Busama through a full span of life, from birth through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and marriage to maturity and death; and he shows how each stage in the individual's life involves a change in his kinship relationships and responsibilities. This approach gives the professional anthropologist a set of carefully presented data analysed in line with the contemporary emphasis on seeing the relations between kin in the context of the local community, and it also offers the general reader an enjoyable and authentic account of the intimacies of Melanesian life

Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Kinship · New guinea · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

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Unique citing works9
Citations per year0,15
Citation span1964 - 2021 (58)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8
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