essay
What did the eruption mean?
Exiles and migrants in Oceania • (5) • Published In 1977 • Pages: 296-341, 401-414
By: Schwimmer, Eric G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a semiotic analysis of native explanations of the eruption of Mount Lamington in 1951. There are four different explanations: that the god of the mountain was punishing the Orokaiva for violation of taboos, that the god of the mountain was punishing the Europeans for their execution of several Orokaivas, that the Christian god was angry at the Orokaivas for various transgressions, and fourth, that the eruption was caused by geophysical forces. Schwimmer feels that these theories '… form a well-structured whole, and together they express contemporary Orokaiva social reality' (p. 338).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Disasters
- Avoidance and taboo
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnosociology
- Missions
- Cultural participation
- Public welfare
- Settlement patterns
- Internal migration
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Orokaiva
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mount Lamington area; Popondetta Sub-District of the Northern District of Papua; Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Erik G. Schwimmer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-414)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77010756
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people)