Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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 
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