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Dobu
Satellite image of Dobu
Location of Dobu Island within D'Entrecasteaux Islands
Dobu is located in Papua New GuineaDobuDobu
Geography
Coordinates9°46′0″S 150°52′59″E / 9.76667°S 150.88306°E / -9.76667; 150.88306
ArchipelagoD'Entrecasteaux Islands
Adjacent toSolomon Sea
Administration
 Papua New Guinea
ProvinceMilne Bay Province
Chief Gaganamole and his wife on Dobu at the turn of the 20th century. Picture by George Brown

Dobu Island is an island, part of D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Papua New Guinea. It is located south of Fergusson Island and north of Normanby Island. It is currently administered by Dobu Rural LLG.

The people of Dobu were the subject of a seminal anthropological study by Reo Fortune. He described the Dobuan character as "paranoid", obsessed with black magic, and as having extremely unusual attitudes toward sex and violence.

Fortune's account was reiterated by Ruth Benedict in her popular work Patterns of Culture. However, many later anthropologists expressed skepticism.

Fortune's analysis was significantly challenged by Susanne Kuehling in her 2005 title Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea. In particular, Kuehling's interest lies at the intersection of ethics and personal conduct.

References

  1. Ann Chowning, review of Fortune's Sorcerers of Dobu, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1964), pp. 455-457

Sources

  • Benedict, Ruth (1934). Patterns of Culture. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Fortune, Reo (1932, repr. 1963). Sorcerers of Dobu: the social anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • Kuehling, Susanne (2005). Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

External links

Islands of Papua New Guinea
Bismarck Archipelago
Louisiade Archipelago
North Solomon Islands
New Guinea portal • icon Islands portal


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