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Mundugumor

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[muhn-doo-guh-mawr] / mʌnˈdu gəˌmɔr /

noun

Mundugumors, plural Mundugumor plural
  1. a member of a Papuan people of Papua New Guinea.


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The Arawaks and Caribs are good examples, and Mead was told about the Mundugumor by the Arapesh tribe.

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Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea.

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Having prowled among the adolescents of Samoa, the housewives of Bali and the husbands of the Mundugumor on New Guinea, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 64, should be prepared for her next field trip.

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Of the Mundugumor tribespeople, she wrote: "It seemed clear to me that a culture that so repudiated children could not be a good culture."

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He had read Margaret Mead's anthropological studies of the Arapesh, the Mundugumor and the Tschambuli societies in New Guinea .

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