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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Kanak
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Missionary
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field Date
- 1903-1926, 1938-1941
- Coverage Date
- 1850-1930
- Coverage Place
- New Caledonia
- Notes
- Maurice Leenhardt ; translated by Basia Miller Gulati ; with a preface by Vincent Crapanzano
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCN
- 78010826
- LCSH
- Ethnopsychology--Melanesia
- Ethnology--New Caledonia
- Ethnology--Melanesia