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4 - Work and nonwork skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2010

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Work skills

  1. garden clearing, burning, planting, weeding, harvesting

  2. carrying

  3. chopping firewood

  4. construction of houses, platforms, clubhouses

  5. canoe manufacture

  6. fencing

  7. grass cutting

  8. rubbish removal

  9. digging

  10. butchering

  11. wood carving

  12. boiling food

  13. bark pounding

  14. tool manufacture (axes, adzes, knives, weapons, drills, pounders, etc.)

  15. valuable manufacture (shell armbands, feather ornaments, strings of dogs' teeth, strings of cowrie shells, etc.)

  16. fire making

Nonwork skills

  1. hunting with dogs, spear, shotgun, bow and arrow, nets

  2. fishing with spear, bow and arrow, hook and line, nets

  3. ritual for hunting, fishing, gardening, curing, peace sorcery, war sorcery, courting, mefu, pig husbandry

  4. drum making

  5. dancing

  6. drumming

  7. singing

  8. roasting food

  9. chewing areca and betel

  10. childbirth

  11. marriage-compensation exchange

  12. mortuary-feast exchange

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Quadripartite Structures
Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture
, pp. 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1985

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