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After freedomBook 1968 • Powdermaker, Hortense
African Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This study, based upon research conducted in the 1930's, views 'a unit of southern American culture in terms of human beings who have inherited a historical situation and whose personalities a...Life in LesuBook 1933 • Powdermaker, Hortense
Lesu • Oceania > Melanesia
This source is a basic ethnographic study of the village of Lesu on the island of New Ireland. The emphasis in the study is on social organization and non-material culture. Included are discus...Mortuary rites in New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago)article 1931 • Powdermaker, Hortense
Lesu • Oceania > Melanesia
The author did her field work for this article under the auspices of the Australian National Research Council. The mortuary rites described here were observed in the villages located on the ea...Vital statistics of New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago) as revealed in genealogiesarticle 1931 • Powdermaker, Hortense
Lesu • Oceania > Melanesia
This article contains demographic information concerning birth, death, disease, and population trends derived from genealogical materials collected during the author's stay in the village of L...Feasts in New Irelandarticle 1932 • Powdermaker, Hortense
Lesu • Oceania > Melanesia
This article, as the title suggests, discusses the function of eating as it occurs under communal-ritual conditions. The author presents a theoretical introduction to the subject, and descript...