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In the first part of this paper (Oceania62(1)) I presented the mythopoeic‐cosmological foundations of incest among the Iqwaye people, a Yagwoia‐Anga group of the West Menyamya Census Division, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The core of incest passions derives from the primordial autosexual‐autonutritive, i.e. self‐procreative, cosmic man. Here I am demonstrating how incest as autocreation is realized in the main structural configurations of Iqwaye social organization, specifically the naming system, patrifiliation, matrifiliation, affinity, cross‐sex siblingship and, finally, institutionalized male homo

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02382.x

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R.A. Drake inOceania(59:269–79) analyzed rumor panics in Borneo about the purported need for children's heads in concrete construction initiated by the state, as a form of ideological warfare. These rumors are ways of dealing with ambiguous situations and expressions of anxiety. The plausibility of these rumors, he argues, lies in the experience that tribal Borneo has had with state governments, most particularly during colonial times when head‐hunting activities were suppressed. The present article looks at a similar rumor complex found in the district of Manggarai in Western Flores within a different cultural and historical context. Manggarai rumor panics center on European missionaries who have been in their region since the beginning of the century and who have been responsible for most of the concrete construction there. This rumor expresses the Manggarai's ambivalence towards foreigners which may be particularly understood, also, in light of their experience with slave‐raiders up to the beginning of this ce

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02383.x

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A major part of the ethnographic literature concerning present‐day Irian Jay a is based on research dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. Following the independence of Indonesia, West New Guinea remained a separate Dutch colony between 1950 and 1962. The Dutch colonial administration had had little ethnographic interest in the area since the beginning of the century, so that interest in knowledge concerning the indigenous population had yet to develop. Lack of manpower, finances and time to instigate adequate research meant that the resulting search for ethnographic data became itself a complex social process. People from a range of backgrounds and training ‐ not only academic researchers, but also administrative and missionary personnel ‐ became involved in the gathering of ethnographic material, often while engaged in quite different duties. In this article some light is shed both on the resulting structure of research and on the motivations behind the separate research efforts. At the end of the article some conclusions are drawn concerning the nature of the material gat

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02384.x

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ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02385.x

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Labour in the South Pacific. Edited byClive Moore, Jacqueline LeckieandDoug Munro.Townsville: James Cook University of Northern Queensland. 1990. Pp. lii +335.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02386.x

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Camilla: C.H. Wedgwood 1901 – 1955, A Life. ByD. WetherellandC. Carr‐Gregg.Kensington: New South Wales University Press. 1990. Pp. xiii + 242. Price $2

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02387.x

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Mind, Body and Culture; Anthropology and the Biological Interface. ByGeoffrey Samuel.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. Pp. xii +192. Price A$59.95.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02389.x

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Embodied Spirits: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat. ByTobias Schneebaum.Salem: Peabody Museum of Salem. 1990. Pp. 104. Price US$ 19.95.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1991.tb02390.x

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