- AU PMB MS 1167-00
- Pièce
- 1960-1979
Fait partie de Reports on land and related matters in Papua New Guinea
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Fait partie de Reports on land and related matters in Papua New Guinea
Masters Thesis: The changing attitudes to illness and misfortune of the Motu/Koita people
Fait partie de The changing attitudes to illness and misfortune of the Motu/Koita people
This thesis was submitted at the University of Sydney and was awarded the degree of Master of Arts (Pass) in Religious Studies. This study, conducted by Robert Leonard Pulsford, provides details and analysis of the Motu Koita traditional belief systems to general health and sickness. The study details the attitudes and their effects on introduced Christian faith and Western medicine. The cross-cultural health and religious situations witnessed by village-based community workers, including professionally trained doctors, nurses and welfare officers, provides insights into health practices. The author’s vast experience of working in the field of Papua New Guinea’s public health system provides a greater sensitivity to the sacred folklores and myths of the Motu Koita people by surveying the social, geographic and economic aspects as well as describing the ceremonial rituals of pre contact times. The study offers a comparison of the role of village diviners, magicians and the like over Western medicine.
The thesis includes nine pictorial images or illustrations which add valuable dimension to the religious and social interactions of the Motu Koita people, in particular Pari Hanua or village people. These images are described as:
Pulsford, Robert Leonard
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Fait partie de Lynette Walker Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Fait partie de Lynette Walker Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Walker, Lynette Grace
Fait partie de Lynette Walker Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Walker, Lynette Grace
Fait partie de Lynette Walker Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Walker, Lynette Grace
Fait partie de Lynette Walker Photographs of New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Walker, Lynette Grace