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Growing Up in New Guinea is a 1930 publication by Margaret Mead. The book is about her encounters with the indigenous people of the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea before they had been changed by missionaries and other western influences. She compares their views on family, marriage, sex, child rearing, and religious beliefs to those of ...
Mead's Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies [66] became influential within the feminist movement since it claimed that females are dominant in the Tchambuli (now spelled Chambri) Lake region of the Sepik basin of Papua New Guinea (in the western Pacific) without causing any special problems. The lack of male dominance may have been ...
The Mundugumor people were first studied by anthropologist Margaret Mead during her field studies in Papua New Guinea from 1931 to 1933. In fact, the only in-depth research done on the Mundugumor was conducted by Mead. [1]
In Margaret Mead’s field study research in 1933 in Papua New Guinea, she outlined a position of women in the Chambri community that was unusual to what had been thought to be the norm across cultures. She speculated that women in the Chambri were the power individuals within the villages instead of men.
Masalai are a type of supernatural spirit in Papua New Guinea.. Margaret Mead defined them as: "supernatural beings that inhabit specific places, usually distinguished by some special natural feature (a water hole, waterfall, bend in a river, cliff, marsh, etc.), and that exercise limited jurisdiction over their own area; they may manifest themselves as snakes, crocodiles and other creatures ...
The anthropologist Margaret Mead, who lived on Manus Island in 1928-29 and 1953, reported a "cargo-cult" movement began on Rambutyo just after WWII, in which people destroyed all their possessions in expectation of a millennial coming. The movement spread to other islands but the "prophet" Wapi was killed when the spirits of the dead never ...
Papua New Guinea: Margaret Mead: 1935 Nairs: Asia: India: Both Matrilineal Fore: Australasia: Papua New Guinea: Shirley Glasse (Lindenbaum) 1963 Garo: Asia: India, Bangladesh: Matrilocal Matrilineal: Gitxsan: North America: Canada: Matrilineal Greek: Europe: various islands Matrilocal John Hawkins: to the end of the 18th century AD [7 ...
She was a member of the New Guinea and Admiralty Island Expedition (1963-1967). Directed by Margaret Mead, the project was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It included two years of field work on Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands of Papua New Guinea.