Author: McDowell, Nancy
Title: The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune
Description: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, (1991). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xiv,337 pp. Textual photos,charts,tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; Factors Shaping the Data; Reconstituting Mundugumor Ethnography; The Plan of the Ethnography; The Mundugumor in Context; Environmental Context and Demography; The Social Context; The Historical Context; Religion; Water and Bush Spirits; Souls, Death, and Ghosts; Sorcery; Magic, Ritual, and Belief; Initiation; Myth and Folktale; Kinship & Marriage; Kinship Terminology; Kinship Behavior; Marriage; The Marriage Process; Clans; Ropes; Kinship, Exchange, and Ropes: A Reinterpretation; Intergenerational Exchange; An Alternative Interpretation of Rope; Mead and the Mundugumor; Ethos; Variation Contradiction.

Keywords: History of Anthropology, Biwat Ethnography, Papua New Guniea, Melanesia Ethnology, Kinakatem, Mundugumor, Social Theory, Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune