Ethnology, Volume 9University of Pittsburgh, 1970 - Anthropology |
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Page 235
... Mehinacu chiefs , they are maintained by all the men of the tribe . The Mehinacu take pride in these paths , building them long , wide , and straight . The trail to the port , for example , is so ample that it could accommodate two ...
... Mehinacu chiefs , they are maintained by all the men of the tribe . The Mehinacu take pride in these paths , building them long , wide , and straight . The trail to the port , for example , is so ample that it could accommodate two ...
Page 237
... Mehi- nacu and their activities . At dawn the boys and younger men of the tribe whistle through their hands as they walk to the river . The whistling is a kind of alarm clock which tells the Mehinacu who are still sleeping that their ...
... Mehi- nacu and their activities . At dawn the boys and younger men of the tribe whistle through their hands as they walk to the river . The whistling is a kind of alarm clock which tells the Mehinacu who are still sleeping that their ...
Page 239
... Mehinacu live very much in the public eye . They are frankly curious and suspicious about their fellow villagers ' whereabouts and activ- ities , and on occasion they even secretly spy on one another . Thus because the Mehinacu consider ...
... Mehinacu live very much in the public eye . They are frankly curious and suspicious about their fellow villagers ' whereabouts and activ- ities , and on occasion they even secretly spy on one another . Thus because the Mehinacu consider ...
Contents
Labels and Rituals in Semai Classification | 16 |
Personal Shrines at Afikpo Simon Ottenberg | 26 |
Lappish Decisions Partnerships Information | 52 |
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adoption adult affinal Afikpo agnatic Amahuaca American Anthropologist AMLOXO analysis animals Anthropology AXALOXO Bajau Beaver behavior Bellona Bellonese boys brother Chhattisgarhi child clans consanguineal culture daughter Ego's ethnographic Ethnology father female Ego folktale fosterage genetrix genitor girls glossed goddess Guaymà Gurage HBC Arch herd household hunter hunting territories Igbo Indians individual Islands Jalé Kafa kin terms kin types kinship kinsmen Lac Seul land lineage linked London Maenge male marriage married married couple Mehinacu moiety mother Ngawbe nkamalo OE/OT Ojibwa Osnaburgh parallel cousins parents patrilineal descent patrilineal descent group personal shrines plants practice relationship relatives retirement ritual sacrifice Samoan seclusion Semai sexual siblings SiHu sister social organization society solidarity special terms spouse Star Husband tale structure subsistence techniques Table Tawi-Tawi terminology tion tribe variables variant village wife witchcraft woman women