- Title
- Rethinking Western Motu descent groups
- Creator
- Goddard, Michael
- Relation
- Oceania Vol. 71, Issue 4, p. 313-333
- Relation
- http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/oceania/oceania1.htm
- Publisher
- Oceania Publications (University of Sydney)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2001
- Description
- The Motu-Koitabu are the traditional inhabitants of the site of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Port Moresby, and well represented in a body of literature, from the 1870s on, encompassing oral history, archaeology and social anthropology. A basic unit of Motu-Koitabu society is the iduhu, a corporate group which is nowadays conventionally glossed locally as a 'clan' in English, but represented in anthropological literature as more ambiguous in nature than the gloss implies.
- Subject
- Papua New Guinea; indigenous people; cultural change; religion; colonialism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26788
- Identifier
- uon:1125
- Identifier
- ISSN:0029-8077
- Language
- eng
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