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A New Guinea childhood: from weaning till the eighth year in Wogeo
Oceania • 16 (4) • Published In 1946 • Pages: 275-296 , plate
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the play activities and educational process of the Wogeo child from the third to the eighth year. Theory of childhood training and methods of inculcation, particularly that of the transmission of skill and social norms are presented systematically. The author indicates that the concept of "conscience" is absent among the Wogeo, and that in moral training utilitarian values are stressed rather than ethical precepts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Infant care
- Childhood activities
- Status of children
- Techniques of socialization
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Transmission of skills
- Transmission of beliefs
- 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)