Knowing the Gururumba
By: by Philip L. Newman.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Gururumba (New Guinea people)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 109-110.
Table of contents: title: The people, the setting, the beginning. Preparing the way -- Arriving on the scene -- Settling in -- Discovering the “look” of things -- The strategy of counting. The lay of the land -- People on the land -- Counting kin -- Focusing on groups. Identifying groups -- Who are the Gururumba? -- The larger picture -- The smaller picture -- Other kinds of groups -- Focusing on roles. Men and women -- Leaders -- Curers -- Kinsmen -- The flow of objects. Gift exchange in the Gururumba setting -- Gift exchange and the ordering of daily affairs -- Gift exchange and Gururumba society -- Ritual and social structure. Nature spirits and the family -- Rituals of the lineage -- The ward and the men’s cult -- The sib and the pig festival -- The phratry and the jaBirisi ceremony -- Groups and rituals -- A theme in supernaturalism. The concern with growth and strength -- Growth and strength : productivity and assertiveness -- Productivity, assertiveness, and sexual energy -- Male and female sexuality -- Body and cosmos -- A view of man and society. The realm of Lusu -- System in the realm of Lusu -- Of pigs and men -- Patterns and people. Gambiri -- Tomu -- Namo -- Sekau -- LEnduwe -- DaBore -- Glossary -- Recommended reading.