Book
Native land tenure in New Guinea
Australian Medical Publishing Company • Sydney • Published In 1940 • Pages:
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a descriptive and analytical study of the Wogeo land tenure system. The author demonstrates that private right to land exists on the island, and is regulated by a common code of inheritance based upon kin relationship, sanctioned by religious beliefs, and perpetuated by a deeply felt sentimental attachment to the soil. Among other topics discussed in this article are: the usage of uncultivated lands, rights to building sites, settlement pattern, community structure, dwelling types, allotment of cultivation sites, transference of land rights through marriage, alienation of cultivation rights to strangers, rights and privileges of the clan headman, and the supernatural beings who are responsible for the creation of the physical world and the innovation of cultural institutions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Localized kin groups
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wogeo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vokeo Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- By H. Ian Hogbin
- Reprinted from OCEANIA, December 1939, Vol. 10, no. 2
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)