Family Relationships

Sorcery

Avoidance and Taboo

Ceremonial During Infancy and Childhood

Childhood Activities

Status of Children

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Skills

Reviews and Critiques

Social Personality

Gift Giving

Status, Role, and Prestige

Talent Mobility

Community Structure

Magic

Ethnosociology

Bibliographies in Sources

Ornament

5311

Visual Arts

Musical Instruments

Identification

Basis of Marriage

Regulation of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Kin Relationships

Inter-Community Relations

Kinship Regulation of Sex

Topography and Geology

Population

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Architecture

Dwellings

Outbuildings

Public Structures

Building Interiors and Arrangement

Settlement Patterns

Organized Ceremonial

Real Property

Inheritance

Gender Status

Premarital Sex Relations

Puberty and Initiation

Adolescent Activities

Majority

Visiting and Hospitality

Warfare

Medical Care

Ethnopsychology

Kinship Terminology

Soil

Tillage

Agricultural Science

Vegetable Production

Land Use

Place Names

Location

Climate

Flora

Theory of Disease

Life and Death

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Cult of the Dead

Eschatology

Ethnoanatomy

Fauna

Nutrition

Collecting

Fowling

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Domesticated Animals

Arboriculture

Special Crops

Diet

Eating

Forest Products

Etiquette

Nuclear Family

Extended Families

Priesthood

Division of Labor by Gender

Sexuality

Menstruation

Sex Training

Gender Roles and Issues

Mode of Marriage

Secondary Marriages

Special Unions and Marriages

Celibacy

Polygamy

Traditional History

Historical Reconstruction

External Relations

Missions

Speech

Linguistic Identification

Fishing Gear

Paraphernalia

Clothing Manufacture

Making of Grooming Accessories

Bone, Horn, and Shell Technology

Shipbuilding

Weapons

Boats

Water Transport

Material Not Relevant

Nuptials

Mats and Basketry

Medium of Exchange

Exchange Transactions

Public Health and Sanitation

Medical Therapy

Mutual Aid

Territorial Hierarchy

Form and Rules of Government

Public Finance

Prayers and Sacrifices

Buying and Selling

General Character of Religion

Mythology

Spirits and Gods

Composition of Population

Residence

Adoption

Bilineal Kin Groups

CULTURE SUMMARY: KIMAM

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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The Kimam live in villages scattered across what little dry ground exists on low-lying  Yos Sudarso Island on the south-central coast of New Guinea. Gardens are constructed in the surrounding swamps using layers of soil and vegetation in order to grow tubers and fruit trees; a diet supplemented by gathering, fishing and hunting. Each autonomous village forms the major unit of ritual and political life, and comprises nuclear families residing on patches of raised ground, organized into wards belonging to one of two ceremonially-opposed village sections that complement each other in a variety of ways, including as reciprocal "wife-givers" and "wife-takers."

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