Book
Manus religion: an ethnological study of the Manus natives of the Admiralty Islands
The American Philosophical Society • III • Published In 1935 • Pages: x, 391 , plates
By: Fortune, Reo, Australian National Research Council.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the result of six months field work undertaken by the author, a well known professional anthropologist, among the Manus of the Admiralty Islands. It is an exhaustive and highly intricate study of the Manus 'Sir Ghost' cult and its repercussions on the established religious system of the people. Of prime importance in the religious system of the Manus are the oracles whose interpretations of illnesses are based on sins of omission or commission on the part of the mortals as revealed to them by the offended ghosts of the dead through divination. Many examples are given in the text of cases in which illness was the direct result of sin, and how, through expiation, these illnesses were 'cured.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Sex and marital offenses
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Life and death
- General character of religion
- Animism
- Eschatology
- Purification and atonement
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- Magicians and diviners
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Manus
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- Book
- 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 ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928-1929
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1928-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Peri, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- by R.F. Fortune
- Manus religion.
- Australian National Research Council Expedition to the New Guinea Littoral, 1928-29
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 36002179
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Manus (Papua New Guinea people)