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Box inscription: Gardening strategies + choosing new settlement sites (sitting settlements + gardens) - Allen's settlement in other people's fanua -- Fane’elala's relation to -- Omea transactions - arumaa, kasanga - Omea strategies, reckoning of kinship - Lounga + Sugeabata -- Incest [translated 31/7/78] -- sexual distance rules -- Bou [translated 31/7/78] -- Bridewealth transactions (+divorce etc) - return of, etc. -- divorce - wa’i transaction - fa’amoolilana bata -- Tonga - before+now --conception - theory of.
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Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries C) Reel-to-Reel. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 151.
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This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 67, Folder 1).
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1/4 inch open reel audio (mono)
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Saelasi Lounga was at this time a South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) Christian living on the coast at Uru Harbour, but was formerly an important and knowledgeable ancestral priest for the Kwangafi area. He died in the early 1990s.
Fane’elala was a older man from Uka in the mountains between Sinalagu and Uru.
An omea is a mortuary feast.
Arumaa is a debt.
Kasanga is when two people exchange valuables at a mortuary feast.
A bou is a (usually simply carved) sacred wooden post around which, in some groups, part of the Beritaunga ritual takes place the day before a mortuary feast, with participants circling the bou in what is called the garifela ritual.
A wa’i is a preliminary marriage payment. In some situations, such as infidelity, failure to have children, incompatibility, a divorce will lead to return to part or all of the bridewealth given.
Tonga is shouting, accompanying certain rituals like the just-mentioned garifela, and also with certain rituals connected to fighting.
Recording is a continuation of Keesing Reel-to-Reel 061-063 and continues on Keesing Reel-to-Reel 065-067.
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[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
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