Mundugumor

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Mundugumor refers to a Papua New Guinean riverine people (also known as the Biwat) whose strongly aggressive, competitive social life was famously analyzed by Margaret Mead in her cross-cultural study of gender and temperament.

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instanceOf Papua New Guinean people
ethnic group
alsoKnownAs Biwat
anthropologicalSignificance used as case study in debates on culture and gender
artForm ritual masks
wood carving
colonialHistory brought into contact with Australian colonial administration in 20th century
comparedWithInMeadStudy Arapesh
Tchambri
surface form: Tchambuli
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
ethnographicRegion Sepik cultures
featuredInWork Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
genderRoleCharacterization both sexes described as aggressive
hasEthnographicRecord documented by early 20th-century anthropologists
kinshipSystemCharacterization emphasis on paternal descent
language Biwat language
languageFamily Ramu–Lower Sepik languages
locatedIn East Sepik Province
locatedOn Sepik River
populationRegion Sepik River
surface form: lower Sepik River
region Sepik region
surface form: Sepik River region
religionType traditional animist beliefs
socialOrganizationCharacterization aggressive
competitive
patrilineal
studiedBy Margaret Mead
subsistenceType horticulture
riverine fishing
traditionalHousingType stilt houses

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