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Sorcery and succession in Wogeo
Oceania • 23 (2) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 133-136
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
Abstract
This brief article resulted from a visit made in 1948, and in part consists of information relayed to the author by the local Catholic missionary in a letter afterward. It continues the story begun in an earlier study of the conflicts which arise in determining a successor to the clan headman with an account of how sorcery (or at least the belief in sorcery) entered the picture. The author maintains that of the three types of sorcery–mild, severe, and deadly–the third is never used and does not exist, though it supposedly enters into the succession crisis.
- 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, 1948
- Coverage Date
- 1934-1949
- Coverage Place
- Vokeo Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- By H. Ian Hogbin
- LCCN
- 38017490
- LCSH
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)