Motif
Camp relocation or temporary camp after death
camp_relocation_or_temporary_camp_after_death
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology LIST OF FIGURES IN THE TEXT / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I / THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION; lines 1455-1545 confidence: medium
Temporary camps were erected by forest folk during the dry season or after a death in a chief camp; they were village-form camps with rapidly built, less carefully thatched huts lasting about three months.
Temporary camps are described as being made when people leave a chief camp because one of their number died there.
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