Lambda Alpha Journal of Man 5, no.2, 1973

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The Lambda Alpha Journal of Man is published semi-annually by the Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society at Wichita State University

Student editor: Joann Brown Bennett
Student editorial staff: Kathleen M. Garrett and Gary W. Howard
Faculty editorial advisor: Lowell D. Holmes

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Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.5, no.2 (complete version)
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1973) Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology
This issue includes four articles: "Witchcraft and sorcery in a Greek peasant village" by Regina Dionisopoulos; "The new capitalists of the New Guinea highlands" by Jennifer J. Erwin; "Sisala marriage" by Eugene I. Mendonsa; and "Beyond the total institution: an ethnographic report" by Michael Seltzer.
Witchcraft and sorcery in a Greek peasant village
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1973) Dionisopoulos, Regina
The new capitalists of the New Guinea highlands
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1973) Erwin, Jennifer J.
This paper is an attempt to discover why the native reaction to the whites should be so different in the highlands when compared to the rest of New Guinea. We must presume that in the pre-white situation there was something in the highland ideology which was particularly amenable to the adoption of capitalistic activities. The main thesis of this paper is that it was the ideological differences concerning leadership qualifications of the highland "big men" and the "big men" of the seaboard areas which caused the differences in their acceptance of Western ideology.
Sisala marriage
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1973) Mendonsa, Eugene l.
Sisala marriage is similar to marriage among other tribal groups in northern Ghana. The agnatic group lineage is the important unilineal descent group vis-a-vis marriage and marriage payments are paid by the groom's lineage to the lineage or the bride. This is not only a structural ideal, but a reality of social organization. Patrilocal residence facilitates the unity of the agnatic descent group while it strains a woman's patrilineal ties.
Beyond the total institution: an ethnographic report
(Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University, 1973) Seltzer, Michael
The following description of recidivistic ex-inmates is drawn from an ongoing participant observational study of unemployed seamen living in several sailors' taverns on the waterfront of a European port. Data was collected during seven month of research in this area and five months of research aboard a cargo vessel in the North Atlantic.

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