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Sorcery and succession in Wogeo
Oceania • 23 (2) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 133-136
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sorcery
- Ingroup antagonisms
- 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, 1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934-1949
- 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38017490
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)