The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

by Karl G. Heider

Overview

For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138535244
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/17/2017
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karl G. Heider has done extensive field research in New Guinea, at the Mayan site of Tikal in Guatemala, and in Thailand, France, Arizona, and South Dakota. He was a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 that documented the Dani in the film Dead Birds and was co-author of the bookGardens of War: Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age. Professor Heider has contributed articles to theSouthwestern Journal of Anthropology, Man, Anthropos, and American Anthropologist. He is currently Associate provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of South Carolina. He has served as Chair on the committee of ethics for the American Anthropological Association as well as President of the general Anthropology division of AAA.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I 1. Subsistence 2. Social Organization 3. Conflict 4. Man and the Supernatural 5. Language and Categories 6. Art and Play PART II 7. The Natural Environment 8. The Body 9. Artifacts of Culture, Conclusions

Editorial Reviews

This descriptive ethnography contributes to the already considerable literature on the peoples of the Grand Valley of the Balim River. The term “Dugum” refers to a 350 population cluster associated with the Dani name for the local hill around which they interact and cluster… [This book] is a useful statement of a Highland New Guinea culture.” —David G. Bettison, Pacific Affairs “This attractively produced ethnography of a neighbourhood of 350 persons among the 50,000 Dani-speakers of Indonesian-controlled West New Guinea is presented as ‘a holistic study’, to the memory of Clyde Kluckhohn… [The] present study gives the non-specialist reader a kaleidoscopic introduction to a wide range of New Guinea behaviours that too often go unreported.” —R. F. Salisbury, Man

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