The Great Village

Download or read book The Great Village written by Cyril S. Belshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic study of the urban Papuan and analyses, among other things, the family, household budgets, the proliferation of ceremonial and the re-birth of sorcery. The study can be compared, from the point of view of methods and research problems, with the increasing number of accounts of the urbanization of traditional societies, particularly in Africa. Hanuabada is not, however, 'de-tribalized' and it has maintained its boundaries intact against overwhelming immigration. First published in 1957.