Sorcery and Social Change: The Kilenge Context

A working paper for the session "Sorcery and Social Change" at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania, February 28, 1979 to March 4, 1979, Clearwater, Florida.Not to be quoted or cited without the express consent of the author.pp. 1-13Scope and Content: This article considers the influence of sorcery on social change among the Kilenge people and their governance. The complex definition of sorcery is considered along with an exploration of the history of resistance to and belief in sorcerers

The Coming of Age in Kilenge

Copyright reserved by the authorpp. 1-10Scope and Content: This article considers the process of coming of age among the Kilenge people through the context of ritual and ceremony. It discusses Marty Zelenietz and Jill Grant's second trip to Ongaia (1981-82) when they brought their baby daughter Sari Amaring with them and documents two coming of age ceremonies held for her--narikanga (homecoming for first-born) and nakuvo

Food and its Social Context in Kilenge, West New Britain

A paper prepared for David Lancy, Principal Research Officer, Department of Education, Box 2051, Konedobu, Papua New Guinea. May 4, 1978.pp. 1-37Scope and Content: This article discusses food in the context of social organization and significance among the Kilenge people. Access to food based on lineage is discussed as well as the gift of food in relation to social status and norms. Food acquisition, sharing, and growing are discussed

As a Matter of Fact

pp. 1-10Scope and content: This article briefly examines the fieldworkers who studied the people in the Kilenge region prior to the authors, and the differences in their observations and conclusions. The authors consider divergences in the areas of artistic production, migration, and social organization. Reasons for divergence of record are also outlined and include different informants, and different interests/backgrounds of fieldworkers

The Visitor: Namor in Kilenge

A paper prepared for the session "Children of Kilibob", Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania annual meetings, Kauai, Hawaii, 21-24 March 1990.Working draft: not to be cited without consent of the authors.pp. 1-8, appendices pp. 1-27Cataloguer's note: Two photographs from this collection are closely related to this article (12.05.0700 and 12.05.0701). Several other photographs (12.05.0695 to 12.05.0699 and 12.05.0702 to 12.05.0710) are loosely related.Scope and Content: This article discusses Namor, the ancestral god of the Kilenge people. The text provides an overview of the history of belief in Namor and the changing role he plays in the lives of the people today. Most people believe in the Christian God as creator as opposed to Namor at the time of the writing of this article and only some still remember and tell Namor stories. The article includes several appendices of transcribed Namor stories

Barren Grounds: Production, Reproduction and Deviance in Kilenge

pp. 1-31Scope and Content: this article describes the labeling of deviants in Kilenge society. Deviants are defined by their interruption of two key activities in the society in question: production and reproduction. Sorcery as a form of deviance is considered.A draft of this paper was presented at the symposium Deviance in a Cross Cultural Context: An Ethnographic-Interactionist Perspective, held at the University of Waterloo in June, 1984

The Social Context of Kilenge Ceremonial Cycles

pp. 1-59Scope and Content: This length article examines social change in response to rapid technological, political, and economic changes occurring in Melanesia at the time of study. The focus of the writing is the impact this change has on artistic production and traditional ceremonial cycles. The authors compare their findings to that of their predecessor, anthropologist J.C. Dark

The Current State of Artifact Production in Kilenge, West New Britain

Workshop 5, The Second Annual International Symposium on the Art of Oceania, February 1-8, 1978 (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand)pp. 1-14Scope and Content: This article discusses the changing state of artifact production in Kilenge. With the rise of a commercial market for artifacts, villagers are generally putting more effort into producing artifacts for sale rather than for traditional use

Villages Without People: A Preliminary Analysis of American Views of Melanesians during World War II as Seen through Popular Histories

Conference paper for the Cultural Encounters in the Pacific War conference, sponsored by the East-West Center, UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, May 198

Siusiu

b&w photographCondition: GoodScope and Content; Siusiu sitting on platform with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth