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Attitudes toward food and hunger in Aloressay 1941 • Du Bois, Cora Alice
Alorese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a brief functional study mainly concerned with delineating the development of attitudes toward food and hunger from the moment of birth to maturity. A good deal of information is also given on personality development, and child rearing....How they pay their debtsarticle 1940 • Du Bois, Cora Alice
Alorese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article is concerned with financial and exchange transactions among the Alor. The author describes the major activities for which wealth is expended including funerals, marriages and the building of lineage houses. Most of this material appears ...The people of AlorBook 1944 • Du Bois, Cora Alice et al.
Alorese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a study of the basic personality structure of the Alorese and of the factors, particularly those concerned with child rearing, which bring about the development of Alorese personality traits. While some ethnographic materials are included par...