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To eat for the dead: Kaduwagan mortuary events
Death rituals and life in the societies of the Kula Ring • Dekalb • Published In 1989 • Pages: 23-45, 275-280
By: Montague, Susan P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The focus of this paper is the mortuary observances at Kaduwaga village on Kaileuna Island. In connection with these mortuary events Montague explores three issues that are generated from the Kaduwagan view of cosmic process, and are part of these observances. These issues are: (1) the departure of the soul (or 'mind' as Montague prefers to call it) from the world of the living; (2) the physical aspects of holding a Kaduwagan funeral and (3) the manner in which mortuary procedures incorporate village level concerns. Each of these issues is described in some detail in this source.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Special garments
- Offenses against life
- Life and death
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- essay
- 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
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971 [p. 23]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kaduwaga village, Kaileuna Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Susan P. Montague
- Bibliography: p. 275-280
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89008611
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders