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The Kapauku Papuans and their kinship organizationarticle 1960 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This article is a pure description of the kinship system of the Kapauku, including a detailed list of kinship terminology. The discussion includes marriage patterns, intestate inheritance, incest taboos, bride price, and liability regarding blood ven...Structural change and primitive lawessay 1969 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
In this article, the author documents changes in the incest law of a Kapauku lineage when its influential headman broke the taboo on intra-sib marriage by eloping with his third paternal parallel cousin. The couple escaped capital punishment by becom...Modern and traditional administration of justice in New Guineaarticle 1981 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This study describes the change in the Kapauku political and legal system under colonial administration. Prior to contact, the Kapauku political system was based on kinship organization, contractual agreements and achieved status. The Kapauku headman...Kapauku Papuans and their lawBook 1958 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This monograph, a doctoral dissertation by an anthropologist at Yale University, is an attempt to demonstrate, with the help of data from the Kapauku Papuans, the effectiveness of a theory of law formulated on the basis of a cross-cultural study of 3...Kapauku Papuan political structurearticle 1958 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a brief descriptive analysis of Kapauku political structure. Pospisil begins by giving a background summary of the Kapauku culture. He then describes the various groups in which an individual Kapauku is placed socially, from the nuclear famil...Social change and primitive lawarticle 1958 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This article discusses the consequences of the breaking of an incest taboo by the headman of one of the large Kapauku villages. The eventual acceptance of this marriage by the tribe started a trend toward endogamy and intra-sib marriage and weakening...Kapauku Papuan economyBook 1963 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This monograph presents a structural-functionl quantitative analysis of Kapauku economy based on the author's investigation of the sublineage of Ijaaj-Enona, the members of which live in one large community called Botukebo, located in West Irian. The...The Kapauku Papuans of West New GuineaBook 1978 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
This is an introductory monograph for students on the Kapauku of western New Guinea, covering their economy, social and political organization, religious and ceremonial life, world view and acculturation. The author was one of the first white men to ...'I am very sorry I cannot kill you any more'book chapter 1993 • Pospisil, Leopold J.
Kapauku • Oceania > Melanesia
In this article, Pospisil analyzes the cause for war in the New Guinea highlands. The research is based on informants' accounts of 12 wars fought in the Kamu Valley in the twenty years prior to the author's arrival, and two wars he himself witnessed ...