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The Dugum Dani - A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea (Hardcover)
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The Dugum Dani - A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea (Hardcover)
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For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive
warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its
consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the
Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of
human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like
rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for
this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a
holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization
are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare,
such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the
Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role
of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of
them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their
warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal
life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects
of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material
objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is
especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age
culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor
Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the
paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near
absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and
other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little
interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their
warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including
previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life
and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and
vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the
general problems of human aggression.
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