IDNO

T.68913.MFL

Description

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; ?Eastern Highlands Province; Godelier

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Maurice Godelier

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

11 June 1968

Collection Name

Macfarlane Collection

Source

Macfarlane, Alan

Format

Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.67481 to T.68999 and T.74937 to T.74998 were found in the box now numbered C494/.
T.68902 to T.68925 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/72/.

Named Person: Maurice Godelier (born February 28, 1934) is a French anthropologist who works as a Studies' Director at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences...
From 1966 to 1969, Godelier conducted his first major anthropological field study on the Baruya in Papua New Guinea. His research provided significant contributions to the limited understanding of New Guinea cultures. In 1982, he used his research to write an ethnography on the Baruya. The book, entitled The Making of Great Men, discusses sex- and gender-based inequality and provided insight into the systems of power in Melanesia. His analysis of the systems of power was further developed in Big Men and Great Men, published in 1991, which he co-edited with Marilyn Strathern." [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Godelier#cite_note-Besnier-1, JD 26/07/2022]