Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-d-6472736

Persistenter Identifier:: BV045453616

Titel:: Patterns of culture

Autor:: Benedict, Ruth

Erscheinungsort:: New York

Verlag:: The New American Library

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1953

Signatur:: A 139 (SA)

Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Soziale Organisation und Praxis

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Titel:: V. Dobu

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V Dobu DoBuU ISLAND lies in the d'Entrecasteaux group off the southern shore of eastern New Guinea. The Dobuans are one of the most southerly of the peoples of northwestern Melanesia, a region best known through the many publi- cations of Dr. Bronislaw Malinowski on the Trobriand Islands. The two groups of islands lie so near that the people of Dobu sail to the Trobriands on trading expedi- tions. But they are people of another environment and another temperament. The Trobriands are fertile low- lying islands which. provide an easy and bountiful living. The soil is rich and the quiet lagoons full of fish. The Dobuan islands, on the other hand, are rocky volcanic upcroppings that harbour only scanty pockets of soil and allow little fishing. Population presses hard upon the possible resources, even though the tiny scattered villages in their most prosperous days numbered only about twenty-five people and now are cut to half, while the Trobriands' dense population lives at ease in large closely set communities. The Dobuans are known to all the white recruiters as easy marks in the area. Risking hunger at home, they sign up readily for indentured labour; being used to coarse and scanty fare, the rations they receive as work-boys do not cause mutiny among them. The reputation of the Dobuans in the neighbouring islands, however, does not turn on the fact of their pov- erty. They are noted rather for their dangerousness. They are said to be magicians who have diabolic power and warriors who halt at no treachery. À couple of gener- ations ago, before white intervention, they were cannibals, and that in an area where many peoples eat no human 120

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