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Puberty to marriage: a study of the sexual life of the native of Wogeo, New Guinea
Oceania • 16 (3) • Published In 1946 • Pages: 185-209 , plate
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article contains the author's observations of the sexual life of the Wogeo. The native attitude toward sex, the acquisition of sexual knowledge among the children and adolescents, premarital and extramarital sexual relations, bond-friendship and its role in arranging liaisons, the concept of erotic beauty, theories regarding conception and pregnancy, sexual themes in myths and daily conversation, illegitimacy, perversion, and incest are among the topics covered in this source.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ornament
- Friendships
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Sexual stimulation
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Premarital sex relations
- Illegitimacy
- Sex training
- Adolescent activities
- 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
- article
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38017490
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)