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Mountain Arapesh (Hardcover)
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For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist
Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment
of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She
found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation.
In contrast to the aggressive Arapesh who lived on the plains, both
the men and the women of the mountain settlements were found to be,
in Mead's word, maternal. The Mountain Arapesh exhibited qualities
that many might consider feminine: they were, in general, passive,
affectionate, and peaceloving. Though Mead partially explains the
male's "femininity" as being due to the type of nourishment
available to the Arapesh, she maintains social conditioning to be a
factor in the type of lifestyle led by both sexes. Mead's study
encapsulates all aspects of the Arapesh culture. She discusses
betrothal and marriage customs, sexuality, gender roles, diet,
religion, arts, agriculture, and rites of passage. In possibly a
portent for the breakdown of traditional roles and beliefs in the
latter part of the twentieth century, Mead discusses the purpose of
rites of passage in maintaining societal values and social control.
Mead also discovered that both male and female parents took an
active role in raising their children. Furthermore, it was found
that there were few conflicts over property: the Arapesh, having no
concept of land ownership, maintained a peaceful existence with
each other. In his new introduction to The Mountain Arapesh, Paul
B. Roscoe assesses the importance of Mead's work in light of modern
anthropological and ethnographic research, as well as how it fits
into her own canon of writings. Roscoe discusses findings he culled
from a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1991 to clarify some ambiguities
in Mead's work. His travels also served to help reconstruct what
had happened to the Arapesh since Mead's historic visit in the
early 1930s.
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