The Mountain Arapesh III. Socio-Economic Life & IV. Diary of Events in Alitoa Volume 40, Part 3 Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 1947

New York: American Museum of Natural History , 1947. Paperbound. In quite good condition./No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with light copybook-blue covers, pp. 418, indexed . Illustrated with b-w halftone plates . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. a major cornerstone of the feminist movement was set forth: The claim that females are dominant in the Tchambuli (now spelled Chambri) Lake region of the Sepik basin of Papua New Guinea without causing any special problems. The lack of male dominance may have been the result of the Australian administration's outlawing of warfare. According to contemporary research, males are dominant throughout Melanesia (although some believe that female witches have special powers. Others have argued that there is still much cultural variation throughout Melanesia, and especially in the large island of New Guinea. Mead stated that the Arapesh people, also in the Sepik, were pacifists, although she noted that they do on occasion engage in warfare.