Talk:Dobu Island

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Ruth Benedict's book Patterns of Culture Chapter 5 describes the society of Dobu -- society revolves around getting the better of other people by cheating, poisoning, or practicing sorcery on them while worrying oneself sick over the virtual certainty that others are getting the better of oneself by cheating, poisoning, or practicing sorcery on oneself. Benedict evidently did not study them at first hand -- can someone cite Benedict's primary source?

Not sure about that author's source, but try this ethnography:

Fortune, R. (1963). Sorcerers of Dobu: the social anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

I haven't seen it myself, but it's cited in a book I'm reading that has a passage on Dobuan culure, which sounds very interesting. 18:36, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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