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Title:
Study of the Abelam of Papua New Guinea and the Nso of Cameroon, 1939-1963

Subject Categories:
Language and linguistics - Media, communication and language
Government and political systems - Politics
Religion and values - Society and culture
Gender roles - Social stratification and groupings

Depositor(s):
Kaberry, P., University College London. Department of Anthropology

Principal Investigator(s):
Kaberry, P., University College London. Department of Anthropology

Abstract:
Phyllis Mary Kaberry, 1910-1977, was educated at the University of Sydney. Her first fieldwork was conducted in the early 1930s in North West Australia on the social status of aboriginal women. In 1936 she moved to London to work in the Anthropology Department of the London School of Economics as a research assistant. After obtaining her doctorate in 1939 she received a fellowship from the Australian National Research Council to undertake fieldwork among the Abelam tribe in New Guinea. This was to become one of her major fieldwork projects. She continued earlier work on researching the roles of women within the society and also wrote about the Abelam political organisation and religious cults. Kaberry moved on to work in the Cameroons in West Africa for the Colonial Social Science Research Council in the mid 1940s. This is where she did some of her most important and memorable work. She studied a culture called the Nso, and here she also focused on the position of women.

Coverage:
Dates of Fieldwork: 1939-1963
Country: Cameroon; Papua New Guinea
Spatial Units: Country
Observation Units: Individuals; Families/households; Institutions/organisations
Kind of Data: Textual data; Fieldwork notes; Correspondence; Photographs; Diaries; Notes on language and rituals

Universe Sampled:
Location of Units of Observation:Cross-national; National; Subnational
Population:Peoples of the Abelam and Nso tribes

Methodology:
Time Dimensions: Longitudinal/panel/cohort
Sampling Procedures: No sampling (total universe)
Method of Data Collection: Observation; Diaries
Weighting: Not applicable

Language(s) of Written Materials:
Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

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