Sa
The Austronesian-speaking Sa of southern Pentecost Island live in nucleated villages and dispersed homesteads, practicing swidden horticulture (principally taro and yams) and fishing in rivers and coastal waters. The main social and political unit is the patrilineage. Christianity has ostensibly replaced ancestor worship, although traditional priests and sorcerers continue to practice.
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Oceania --Melanesia
Vanuatu
OO17
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Time coverage of the Sa collection reflects periods of fieldwork by three ethnologists spanning six decades in the twentieth century: from the mid-1910s to 1920s (Tattevin 1928), the 1950s, and 1970s. The main topics covered are subsistence practices (Jolly 1981), religious beliefs (Lane 1965), clans (Tattevin 1928), and kinship and marriage (Lane 1957).
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Ian Skoggard
Ian Skoggard