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The father chooses his heir: A family dispute over succession in Wogeo, 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 story of a dispute engendered by the latent antagonism between a polygamous clan headman and his first born son over the matter of succession. The immediate cause of the dispute was the father's decision to marry his daughter to someone she disliked. This prompted the son to take his sister's side. The emotional reaction of the disputants, and of the community, as the conflict progressed is told in a continuous narrative.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Public opinion
- Ethics
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Localized kin groups
- 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, September 1940, Vol. 11, no. 1
- Since the status and powers of the community headman is derived from his position as the clan head, all references to the headman are marked for 618.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)