A Medical and Anthropological Study of the Chimbu Natives in the Central Highlands of New Guinea

Ivinskis, V.; Kooptzoff, Olga; Walsh, R. J.; Dunn, Diane M.

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1956.tb00700.x

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“…Some gene frequencies of the Aiome people are compared in Table 6 with other populations in New Guinea and with other pygmy people in Africa, the Andaman Islands and Malaya. Some significant observations from the table are as follows: Chimbu (Ivinskis, Kooptzoff, Walsh and Dunn, 1956) .. .. 0'2473 0' 1656 0'0249 0'1487 0.8950 0'0791 Goroka (Kariks, Kooptzoff, Steed, Cotter and Walsh, 1959) ·. 0'1945 0'0934 0'0575 0'0861 0.8380 0' 1044…”

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A Study of the Population Near Aiome, New Guinea

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Kooptzoff

Walsh

1960

Oceania

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A Study of the Population Near Aiome, New Guinea

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Walsh

1960

Oceania

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“…The pattern usually found differs from that of the Motu-Koita people mainly in respect of the ABO system in which the A gene frequency is higher Sources of Information: (l) Kooptzoff and Walsh, 1957; (2) Simmons, Graydon, Semple and Taylor, 1951;(S) Dunn, Kooptzoff, Price and Walsh. 1956;(4) Ivinskis, Kooptzoff, Walsh and Dunn, 1956;(5) Macintosh, Walsh and Kooptzoff, 1957;(6) Kariks, Kooptzoff and Walsh, 1957;(7) ; IS) ; IS) Kooptzoff and Walsh, 1955;(10) unpublished data;1111 Simmons andGraydon, 1947;(12) Simmons, Graydon, Semple, Birdsell, Melbourne and Lee, 1952;(13) (14) Graydon, Simmons, Semple and Ingram, 1953;(15) (16) Graydon, Simmons, Semple, Clapham and Wallace, 1952;(17) Walsh, Kooptzoff, Dunn and Atienza, 1954;11S) Polunin and Sneath, 1953;I1S) Walsh, Kooptzoff, Dunn and Sohn, 1955;(20) Simmons, Graydon, Semple and Green, 1950;(21) Graydon, 1952;(22) Simmons, Graydon, Semple and Kodama, 1953;(23) Simmons, Graydon and Sringam, 1954;(24) Lehmann, 1954;(25) Mourant, 1954;(26) Sanger, Walsh and Kay, 1951. than the B gene frequency. The only exception to this generalization is amongst the natives in the region of the Wissel Lakes in Dutch New Guinea, but these subjects have even lower AI> M and S frequencies.…”

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Blood Groups of the Motu and Koita Peoples

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“…Though government DDT spraying programs have controlled its transmission to some extent, malaria is now the fifth leading cause of death throughout Papua New Guinea and accounts for ten to fifteen percent of all illness in some highlands communities (Black 1971 ;Ivinskis et al 1956). Gastric and duodenal ulcers are also common.…”

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Many medicines in one: Curing in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Johannes

1980

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The actual means by which the clinical successes of non-Western medical treatments are achieved has been little explored. More specifically, analyses have focused almost exclusively on their psychotherapeutic value, with some attention to the pharmacodynamics of plant remedies. The central argument of this paper is that such a perspective has been generated more by the selective psychiatric orientation of cross-cultural field-workers than by the diverse realities of the curing systems themselves. The paper describes medical care among the Nekematigi, Benabena-speaking horticulturalists of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Presented within an ecological framework, these materials demonstrate dependence upon a wide range of physical manipulations such as bleeding and flagellation with nettles, dietary alterations including increased protein consumption, social rearrangements, verbal spells, and plant medicinals of both specific and general application. The potential effects of each contribution to the medical regime are examined and a twofold conclusion is reached: (1) that it is precisely the mix of physical and psychological elements that accounts for Nekematigi success in treating the chronic infectious diseases which predominate in their environment, and (2) that this is likely to be true of many previously reported medical systems hitherto interpreted primarily in psychological, social, or symbolic terms.

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A Medical and Anthropological Study of the Chimbu Natives in the Central Highlands of New Guinea

Cited by 31 publications

References 6 publications

A Study of the Population Near Aiome, New Guinea

A Study of the Population Near Aiome, New Guinea

Blood Groups of the Motu and Koita Peoples

Many medicines in one: Curing in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

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