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Marriage contracts among the Tiwiarticle 1962 • Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter)
Tiwi • Oceania > Australia
This document is mainly a description of the form and nature of the varying types of marriage contracts among the Tiwi. The emphasis is on the factor of relative age as an important consideration. The author attempts a new perspective by using the po...Qualifications of Adulthoodarticle 1963 • Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter)
Tiwi • Oceania > Australia
This article discusses the three-day Kulama ceremony of the Tiwi - a formal initiation into adulthood centering around the ritual preparation of a toxic yam. There is no set age for initiation. The instruction lasts six years and the initiates must p...'Alonga Bush'article 1957 • Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter)
Tiwi • Oceania > Australia
This document is a popularized account of the author's experiences and observations recorded during the hunting expedition of a Tiwi band in which she was allowed to participate. These observations are interspersed from time to time with bits of ethn...Tiwi wivesBook 1971 • Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter)
Tiwi • Oceania > Australia
This book discusses Tiwi social organization through the life cycles of individual men and women. It does this by providing detailed exposition of social groups, marriage arrangments, puverty rites and funeral ceremonies in which culturally expected ...Production and reproduction of key resources among the Tiwi of North Australiaessay 1982 • Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter)
Tiwi • Oceania > Australia
This article identifies and discusses linkages between sexual division of labor and local knowledge of the pysical enviroment among the Tiwi of northern Australia. It shows how this connection is reproduced from generation to generation as invidual m...Buddhist monk, Buddhist laymanBook 1973 • Bunnag, Jane
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This monograph is a study of monastic organization and an analysis of “…religious role performance in terms of its correlation with the social and economic status of individual actors” (p. 1). The book contains a summary of the Thai social system, in...Culture Summaryessay 2020 • Whittle, Jane
British (1485-1603) • Europe > British Isles
This is a culture summary of the British people during the reign of the House of Tudor, 1485-1603. Information is presented on major aspects of the culture of Tudor Britain....BaliBook 1953 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a detailed descriptive account of a bi-yearly odalan or temple festival in Bali. During this festival the people of the village and the priests in the village temple invite the gods to visit the village for three days. The author has given a ...BaliBook 1949 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This volume is a study of two Balinese deities: Rangda and Barong. After examining their historical and social identities the author seeks to determine the psychological meaning behind these supernaturals as expressed in the actions of the individual...The Balinese temper, character and personalityarticle 1936 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article examines the psychological character of the Balinese, based on the author's four years' residence in Bali between 1931-1934. By the term 'temper,' Belo means 'the nature and ways of the people as a whole.' It is the author's assumption t...Study of Balinese familyarticle 1936 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a case study of an 'ordinary' Balinese djaba family, in an 'ordinary' village lying half way between the modern town and the region of the old-style Bali-Aga villages. Belo claims that since more than ninety percent of the Balinese belong to ...Going out for coffee?essay 1991 • Cowan, Jane K.
Greeks • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This essay explores the ways in which gender is socially and culturally constructed in the town of Sohos in central Macedonia. In this community leisure pursuits, such as the everyday activity of coffee drinking, are both gender segregated and encode...Nassau County's Italian American Womenbook chapter 1987 • Capozzoli, Mary Jane
Italian Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a study of how their Italian heritage has affected the lives of suburban Italian-American women, especially the influence of family and kin. When compared to non-Italian women, Italian-American women tend to live closer to kin and their place...Maternity and its ritual in Bang ChanBook 1963 • Hanks, Jane Richardson
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is an account of the customs and beliefs surrounding pregnancy and birth among the inhabitants of a small rural community, about 20 miles from Bankok. Special consideration is given to attitudes and acceptance of modern medical methods. Also, di...A rural Thai village's view of human characteressay 1965 • Hanks, Jane Richardson
Central Thai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This short source describes some key ideas about human character among Bang Chan villagers. Principally, the author describes notions about life's “two vital essences” as seen by rural Thai, the KHWAN and the WINYAN. Their relationship to Buddhist id...The 'principal people,' 1960Book 1966 • Kupferer, Harriet Jane
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This work is a study of acculturation in the community of Cherokee, North Carolina, in 1960 and a test of the utility of Thomas's (1958) four-fold typology of acculturated groups among the Eastern Cherokee. Kupferer examines a range of behaviors, val...Visitors to Hermannsburgessay 1992 • Hardy, Jane Marie
Aranda • Oceania > Australia
The focus of this study is on the life and work of the western Aranda artist Albert Namatjira. In contrast to documents 42-45 in this file that also contain biographical information on Namatjira, this study stresses the early years (ca. 1930s) of Nam...Culture summaryessay 2009 • Goodale, Jane C.
Tiwi • Oceania > Australia
This is a culture summary of the Tiwi. Information is presented on major aspects of Tiwi culture....Effects of contact on revenge hostilities among the Achuará Jívaroessay 1984 • Bennett Ross, Jane
Jivaro • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
In this article, Ross examines how internecine conflict among the Jivaro intensified with commercial penetration in the post-contact era. According to Ross, feuds were periodic and originally related to ecological factors, however with the slave trad...Unseasonal migrationsBook 1988 • Collins, Jane Lou
Aymara • South America > Central Andes
Focusing on the district of Moho in Huancané Province on the northeastern shore of Lake Titicaca (department of Puno), Collins attempts to account for the fact that while the highland peasants produce coffee in the Tambopata Valley of southern Peru, ...Women of Turkey and their folk-lorebook chapter 1891 • Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane, 1934 & Glennie, John Stuart
Kurds • Middle East > Middle East
This document presents general ethnographic information on the Kurds from the point of view of the women and their role in Kurdish society. In addition there is some information on religion, marriage, funerals and a sample of Kurdish folktales....