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Powdermaker's Lesu
Journal of anthropological research • 47 • Published In 1991 • Pages: 377-387
By: Rosman, Abraham, Rubel, Paula G..
Abstract
This article looks back at Hortense Powerdermaker's study of Lesu villagers in 1929-1930 from the perspective of anthropology in 1980s. It shows that Powerdermaker's study was done while she was carrying out during the highdays of functionalism and as such reflects the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. She treated Lesu society as though it was a bounded community unrelated to a wider context. The article uses Powdermaker's own ethnographic data to argue that Lesu was a village within a region that has a particular colonial history.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field Date
- 1987
- Coverage Date
- 1880-1987
- Coverage Place
- Lesu, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387)
- LCCN
- 73645054
- LCSH
- New Ireland Province (Papua New Guinea)
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--New Ireland
- Lesu, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea)