Social Implications of Some Tangu Myths

Tangu are settled in a knot of steep ridges some 15 miles inland from Bogia Bay on the north coast of New Guinea in the Madang District. They are, within the context of a larger culture area, a distinct entity. In the 4 versions of the myth there are a series of incidents involving 4 basic kinds of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 1956-12, Vol.12 (4), p.415-431
1. Verfasser: Burridge, Kenelm O L
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Zusammenfassung:Tangu are settled in a knot of steep ridges some 15 miles inland from Bogia Bay on the north coast of New Guinea in the Madang District. They are, within the context of a larger culture area, a distinct entity. In the 4 versions of the myth there are a series of incidents involving 4 basic kinds of SR's woven into a pattern of shifting roles. Parent & child--where parent becomes wife; wife & husband--where husband is also brother; brother & brother--where the latent antagonism symbolizes the relationship between white men & black. The gist of the myths is echoed among many peoples widely separate in time & in space. They were obtained in a particular soc context, however, from Tangu who themselves associated the myths with cargo cult activities. Due presumably to the fact that the nature of Tangu society is disnomic, rather than anomie, today many cultural items are missing. It is signif that in these myths the discrepancies of detail are matched by the congruence of ends--the idea that some kind of guilt explains the diff between white & black men. J. A. Broussard.
ISSN:0038-4801
0091-7710
DOI:10.1086/soutjanth.12.4.3629066