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Tillage and collectionBook 1939 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article describes the three main economic activities of the Wogeo: fishing, fruit gathering and agriculture. The seasonal distribution of work and the intensity of labor are recorded in some detail. Other aspects of Wogeo economy such as the ord...Native land tenure in New GuineaBook 1940 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a descriptive and analytical study of the Wogeo land tenure system. The author demonstrates that private right to land exists on the island, and is regulated by a common code of inheritance based upon kin relationship, sanctioned by religious...The father chooses his heirBook 1940 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a story of a dispute engendered by the latent antagonism between a polygamous clan headman and his first born son over the matter of succession. The immediate cause of the dispute was the father's decision to marry his daughter to someone she...Native culture of Wogeoarticle 1935 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This is the earliest of a series of reports on the Wogeo by the author, who did extensive fieldwork in the Solomons and New Guinea. This article is a brief introduction to the native culture as a whole. It contains information on physical characteris...Trading expedition in northern New Guineaarticle 1935 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
Trade between the Schouten Islands and the opposite New Guinea coast is an important adjunct to the Wogeo economy. A trading expedition involves the building of canoes by the entire community, the accumulation of trading goods, the performance of mag...A New Guinea infancyarticle 1943 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article describes the Wogeo theory of conception and embryonic development, the status and treatment of the pregnant woman and her spouse, childbirth and postnatal care, infanticide, the feeding and care of the infant, the process of weaning, an...Marriage in Wogeo, New Guineaarticle 1945 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article discusses the Wogeo attitude toward marriage, exogamy rules, modes of marriage, betrothal, wedding, family relations, polygamy, adultery, and divorce. The presentation is enlivened considerably by the author's observations of individual ...Puberty to marriagearticle 1946 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article contains the author's observations of the sexual life of the Wogeo. The native attitude toward sex, the acquisition of sexual knowledge among the children and adolescents, premarital and extramarital sexual relations, bond-friendship and...A New Guinea childhoodarticle 1946 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article describes the play activities and educational process of the Wogeo child from the third to the eighth year. Theory of childhood training and methods of inculcation, particularly that of the transmission of skill and social norms are pres...Adoption in Wogeo, New Guineaarticle 1935 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
The author attributes the rather common practice of child adoption in Wogeo to a genuine love of children, a desire for old age security, and the preservation of landholding within the family. Aside from the motives and procedure of adoption, he also...Social reaction to crimearticle 1938 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
The author relates incidents of adultery and thievery which occurred during his stay among the Wogeo. The attitude of the culprits and of the community toward each of the crimes committed, and the eventual disposition of the case are recorded in some...Sorcery and succession in Wogeoarticle 1952 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This brief article resulted from a visit made in 1948, and in part consists of information relayed to the author by the local Catholic missionary in a letter afterward. It continues the story begun in an earlier study of the conflicts which arise in ...Sorcery and administrationarticle 1935 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article covers the various types of sorcery practiced by the Wogeo and in the Solomon Islands. Also discussed are European-made laws regarding such sorcery, the views of missionized natives, and the futility of trying to change the native attitu...Manabook chapter 1936 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This article covers magic among the Wogeo and in the Solomon Islands, particularly love magic....The island of menstruating menBook 1970 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This monograph is an attempt at a thorough study of the religious beliefs of the Wogeo, with the objective of inspiring further research of this kind in Melanesia. Topics covered include heroes and mythology, spirits and their associated ceremonies, ...Wogeo kinship terminologyarticle 1963 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a brief list of kinship terms of reference and terms of address....Food festivals and politics in Wogeoarticle 1969 • Hogbin, Herbert Ian
Wogeo • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a description and discussion of a food festival. The objective is for a headman to humiliate his rival with a shower of gifts which the latter would be unable to repay. The first hurdle is to get the rival headman in the same room so that the...