One Father, One Blood: Descent and Group Structure Among the Melpa People

affiliation affines agnates alliance allies ancestors Bena Bena bridewealth chapter child choice claims clan territory clan-section clansmen Daribi descent groups descent idiom Eltimbo exchange partners extra-clan fact father filiation gardens genealogical ghosts Hagen Hagen township Highlands societies homesteads hosts husband idiom incomer jural Kawelka clan-groups Kawelka clans Kawelka Kundmbo Kawelka territory Kimbo kinship Kitepi Klamakae Klammbo Kombukla Kundmbo clan Kurupmbo land lineage live Mae-Enga major big-man male Mandembo Manga marriage married maternal kin Mbukl Meggitt Melpa membership Membo clan men's house Minembi moka exchanges mother's brother Mount Hagen moves natal natal place Ndamba ndating non-agnates non-agnatic Nuer Oklembo Ongka Oyambo patrifilial patrilineal pattern persons pigs polygynist rapa recognised recruitment refugees relations relationships Roklambo Scheffler segments separate settlement settlement-place share sickness sisters situation social sons sponsor Strathern structure sub-clan sub-sub-clan Table Tipuka tribe uxorilocal uxorilocal residence Wahgi wamb warfare widow wife's wives woman women Yelipi