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Marriage in Wogeo, New Guinea
Oceania • 15 (4) • Published In 1945 • Pages: 324-352 , plate
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
Abstract
This article discusses the Wogeo attitude toward marriage, exogamy rules, modes of marriage, betrothal, wedding, family relations, polygamy, adultery, and divorce. The presentation is enlivened considerably by the author's observations of individual emotional response to love and marriage.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field Date
- 1934
- Coverage Date
- 1934
- Coverage Place
- Vokeo Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- By H. Ian Hogbin
- LCCN
- 38017490
- LCSH
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)