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Agriculture for Beginners - Chapter 12

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Farm crops, as every child of the farm knows, are not equally adapted to all soils and climates. while the scythe, slow and back-breaking, is everywhere getting out of the way of the mowing-machine and the horserake. Instead of the plowman's wearily making one furrow at a time, the gang-plows of the plains cut many furrows at one time, and...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - Overview

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The HRAF archive, established in 1949, contains nearly one million pages of information on the cultures of the world.. Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe University of the South Pacific Suva. University of the South Pacific Suva. The publication of the Encyclopedia of World Cultures in the last decade of...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - A

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This is the southernmost group of the Abelam. From the Sepik floodplains in the south the Abelam extend to the foothills of the Prince Alexander Mountains (coastal range) in the north. Parts of the Abelam territory range, with 70 persons per square kilo- meter, are among the most densely populated areas in Papua New Guinea.. Ndu speakers moved into the...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - B

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The master carvers (wowipits) have been recognized as among the best of the preliterate world. Upon death, family and close friends grieve openly and intensively for several hours, flinging themselves down and rolling in the mud of the river- bank. Mud is believed to mask the scent ofthe living from the capricious spirit of the dead. The spirits of the...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - C

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religious holidays, and the end of the traditional period of mourning.. At the end of the mourning period, a large feast is held for the commu- nity, but the spirit of the dead person is believed to frequent the village or camp until his or her death has been avenged.. "Sister Exchange among the Wamek of the Middle Fly.' Ph.D....

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - D

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pacification and development in the Grand Valley. concentration of Dani is in the Grand Valley ofthe Balim. To the north and west of the Grand Valley, in the upper Balim and adjacent drainage areas, live the Western Dani. Because of the high altitude and the sheltering. In the Grand Valley, the mean range of tempera- ture is from 26° C...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - E

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Easter Island 53. Easter Island. Easter Islanders evidently never. (also Rapa-nui, Rapanui) came into use in the 1800s and eventu-. features are the three volcanic peaks, each located at one cor- ner of the island. grass or shrubs, although parts were heavily forested in the. Only flocks of sea birds and the Polynesian rat were in-. ers in the eighteenth...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - F

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The Foi inhabit the Mubi River Valley and the shores of Lake Kutubu on the fringe of the southern high- lands in Papua New Guinea. and the foimena proper, the so-called Lower Foi who reside near the junction of the Mubi and Kikori rivers. Most members of the Foi population inhabit the banks of the middle reaches of the Mubi...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - G

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Journal of the Polynesian Society 85:27-69.. With enemy groups often less than an hour's walk away, land outside of the garden areas was often contested. 'Nama Cult of the Central High- lands, New Guinea.". 'Cultures of the Central High-. The Gainj live in the Takwi Valley of the West- em Schrader Range in Papua New Guinea's Madang Prov-. On the...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - H,I

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Hawaiians are the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands. homeland, they are the descendants of Eastern Polynesians who originated in the Marquesas Islands. is that of the largest island in the chain. refer to the aboriginal people of the archipelago because the first Western visitors anchored at that island and interacted predominantly with Hawai'i Island chiefs.. Rainfall and soil fertility...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - K

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is the collective designation of four closely related horticul- turalist groups who live in the rain forest of the Great Papuan Plateau. meters, in the drainage of the Isawa and Bifo rivers. in the precontact years, but the 1940s brought epidemics of measles and influenza, which devastated many of the groups.. larly with the Sonia to the west and the...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - L

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at the center of the Lak electorate, lies roughly at 1530 E, 4°30' S. The northern border of the Lak area is marked roughly by the Mimias River and the beginning of the Susu-. There are no reliable estimates of the. Lak is a member of the Patpatar- Tolai Subgroup of Austronesian languages. Use of the vernacular is. Two members...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - M

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In 1982 the population of the islands was approximately 22,100. The Lineage System of the Mae Enga of New Guinea. It is probably similar to that of the linguistically related Tauade (Goilala).. Other members of the extended family may also join the household. Decision making within communities is done cooperatively by the amidi of the clans in the community and...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - N

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In general the idea of the dwelling place of the dead was not im- portant to the Muyu. Far more significant was, and is, the idea that the spirits continue to play an important part in the daily lives of the living. is a term used to designate both the region and its inhabitants by the people who live in...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - O

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'Changing Patterns of Marriage and Migration on Namoluk Atoll.". "Political Change: An Outer Island Perspective.". Ontong Java. Ontong Java is a coral atoll in the Solo- mon Islands and is one of the so-called Polynesian outliers, a number of islands and atolls located outside of the Polyne- sian triangle that are inhabited by people who are Polyne- sian in their...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - P

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Bull-roarers in the Papuan Gulf. Drama of Orokolo: The So- cial and Ceremonial Life of the Elema. The central part of the island is mountainous and covered with dense primary rain forest. In 1906 the rivalry between British and French influences was resolved by the creation of the Condominium of the New Hebrides. The men's houses are of the same...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - R

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Journal of the Polynesian Society . Rapa is the southernmost island in the Austral Archipelago. refers to a small islet off the east coast of the main island. They form part of French Polynesia and lie to the south of the Society Islands and east of the Cook Is- lands. The highest of the peaks ex- ceeds 600 meters. The...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - S

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The Sambia, a congeries of historically and socially integrated phratries that speak the Sambia language, live in the fringe areas of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The Sambia are located in the rugged Kratke Mountains bounded by the Lamari River, the alluvial Papuan lowlands, and adjacent river valleys of the Eastern Highland Province, Marawaka District. Sambia is...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - T

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The Tahitic language of the Tahi-. years of the eighteenth century varied from as few as 16,050. purposes, was limited to the islands of the archipelago and the atolls of the western Tuamotus. Regular aboriginal trading was carried on with the leeward islands of the Society Archipelago and the western. atolls of the Tuamotus. The principal item for exchange was...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume 2 - Oceania - U

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Ulithians are Micronesians living on an atoll in the west-central Caroline Islands. and "Urishi.". Its closest neighbors are Yap and Ngulu to the west. and Fais to the east. Guam is about 640 kilometers to the northeast. The climate is that of the doldrums belt, with much rainfall and high humidity.. The Spaniards in the Philippines often en- countered Carolinians...