Arapesh

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Arapesh are an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea known for their relatively egalitarian and cooperative social structure, famously discussed in Margaret Mead’s anthropological work.

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Arapesh canonical 3
Arapesh people 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
indigenous people
artForm body decoration
carved wooden objects
ritual masks
colonialHistory contact with German colonial administration
later Australian administration
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
describedBy Margaret Mead
describedIn Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
economy small-scale trade
subsistence agriculture
environment mountainous terrain
tropical rainforest
famousCaseStudyIn cultural anthropology
genderRoles low emphasis on male aggression (in Mead’s account)
relatively complementary gender roles
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
kinshipSystem exogamous clans
patrilineal descent
languageFamily East Papuan languages
surface form: Papuan languages

Torricelli languages
languageStatus endangered
locatedIn East Sepik Province
Sandaun Province
marriagePattern arranged marriages
bridewealth payments
neighboringGroup Mundugumor
Tchambuli
populationTrend declining number of fluent Arapesh speakers
region Sepik region
religion Christianity
traditional animist beliefs
socialStructure cooperative
relatively egalitarian
speaks Abu Arapesh language
Bumbita Arapesh language
Mountain Arapesh language
Southern Arapesh language
studiedBy Margaret Mead
Reo Fortune
traditionalRitual male initiation ceremonies
yam fertility rituals
traditionalSubsistence banana cultivation
hunting and gathering
pig husbandry
swidden horticulture
taro cultivation
yam cultivation

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Arapesh society ethnicGroupOf Arapesh
this entity surface form: Arapesh people