Tairora



ETHNONYMS: Kainantu, Ndumba, Ommura, Taiora

See also Fore , Gahuku-Gama , Gururumba

Bibliography

Grossman, Lawrence S. (1984). Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hays, Terence E., and Patricia H. Hays (1982). "Opposition and Complementarity of the Sexes in Ndumba Initiation." In Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guineat edited by Gilbert Herdt, 201-238. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Johnson, S. Ragnar (1982). "Food, Other Valuables, Payment, and the Relative Scale of Ommura Ceremonies (New Guinea)." Anthropos 77:509-523.

Pataki-Schweizer, K. J. (1980). A New Guinea Landscape: Community, Space, and Time in the Eastern Highlands. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Radford, Robin (1987). Highlanders and Foreigners in the Upper Ramu: The Kainantu Area, 191 9- 1942 . Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Watson, James B. (1983). Tairora Culture: Contingency and Pragmatism. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Watson, Virginia Drew, and J. David Cole (1977). Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

TERENCE E. HAYS

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