Book
Do kamo: person and myth in the Melanesian world
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Leenhardt, Maurice, Gulati, Basia Miller, Crapanzano, Vincent.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This classic work on Kanak mentality describes it as "mythic". The many dimensions of this mentality include its relationship to the body, emotions, space, time, language, names, kinship, chieftainship, ancestor worship, and totemism. The process of "individuation" that ensues in response to the colonial encounter and missionizing work is also discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Personality development
- Social personality
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Speech
- Semantics
- Gift giving
- Personal names
- Status, role, and prestige
- Community heads
- Mythology
- Theological systems
- Ordering of time
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnopsychology
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kanak
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1903-1926, 1938-1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New Caledonia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maurice Leenhardt ; translated by Basia Miller Gulati ; with a preface by Vincent Crapanzano
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78010826
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnopsychology--Melanesia
- Ethnology--New Caledonia
- Ethnology--Melanesia