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Sorcery and administration
Oceania • 6 (1) • Published In 1935 • Pages: 1-32 , plates
By: Hogbin, Herbert Ian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article covers the various types of sorcery practiced by the Wogeo and in the Solomon Islands. Also discussed are European-made laws regarding such sorcery, the views of missionized natives, and the futility of trying to change the native attitudes with administrative measures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Offenses against life
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- 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.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933, 1934
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1933-1934
- 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; Solomon Islands
- NotesAdditional notes
- By H. Ian Hogbin
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38017490
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea)