Terence Hays
Rhode Island College, Anthropology, Emeritus
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The people of Habi\u27ina village live on the northern slopes of Mount Piora in the Dogara Census Division of the Kainantu District, Eastern Highlands Province. Like other Papua New Guineans, they possess a rich oral literature and tell... more
The people of Habi\u27ina village live on the northern slopes of Mount Piora in the Dogara Census Division of the Kainantu District, Eastern Highlands Province. Like other Papua New Guineans, they possess a rich oral literature and tell each other stories for a wide variety of reasons. All stories are called huri, but several different types can be distinguished
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The role of the transverse flute as sacred and related to the themes of fertility and growth and gender among male cults through the various diverse societies in the Papua New Guinea Highlands were surveyed. Drawing upon the ethnographic... more
The role of the transverse flute as sacred and related to the themes of fertility and growth and gender among male cults through the various diverse societies in the Papua New Guinea Highlands were surveyed. Drawing upon the ethnographic literature the sacred flute complex including bullroarers is described in order to identify the recurrent themes in male cultism and their meaning as part of a worldwide order rather than simply part of a localized symbolic system. The transverse flutes in contrast to the jews harp panpipes and end-blown flutes with finger holes were widely seen as sacred male instruments throughout all New Guinea but specifically in the Eastern Highlands and Chimbu Districts part of the Western Highlands east of Mt. Hagan and the eastern part of the Southern Highlands. The instrument was played in pairs with the larger or longer one usually designated as male and the smaller one female or with some attribute of sex. The tunes were said to arouse sexual desire and w...
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ABSTRACT In Hays study of the "Myths of Matriarchy" in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, he draws upon Joan Bamberger's "Myths of Matriarchy" from 1974. He seeks to address whether... more
ABSTRACT In Hays study of the "Myths of Matriarchy" in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, he draws upon Joan Bamberger's "Myths of Matriarchy" from 1974. He seeks to address whether Bamberger's analysis of South American objects can illuminate those from the area he is studying, that of the Highlands of New Guinea. Hays notes that there is a long argued idea that the "sacred flute complex" was manifested from and contributed to the mutually antagonistic gender relations of the societies in which that area is known for and that once upon a time women brandished the flute and bullroarer instruments and were given power. Hays also suggests that the flutes and bullroarers that denote "symbols of male power" in this culture were not only used in dramatizations of their hegemony, but kept their cult and deception concealed. The use of these instruments were not only for protection, but for physical force so that women wouldn't try to recapture that in which once gave them power in the mythological past that may suggest they once did.
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ABSTRACT European colonization attracts laborers whose performance was enhanced by their employers through the use of drugs. Tobacco provided Europeans a way to manipulate populations engaged in new work activities in the non-Western... more
ABSTRACT European colonization attracts laborers whose performance was enhanced by their employers through the use of drugs. Tobacco provided Europeans a way to manipulate populations engaged in new work activities in the non-Western world. Hays argues that control of native labor was the result of control of an addictive American commercial product.
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Page 245. 5 OPPOSITION AND COMPLEMENTARITY OF THE SEXES IN NDUMBA INITIATION Terence E. Hays and Patricia H. Hays The Authors Terence E. Hays is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. ...
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ABSTRACT Collections of artifacts and specimens from Pacific Island cultures are found throughout Rhode Island. The largest and most systematically collected is in the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park, Providence. The... more
ABSTRACT Collections of artifacts and specimens from Pacific Island cultures are found throughout Rhode Island. The largest and most systematically collected is in the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park, Providence. The items were acquired by Rhode Island citizens over about a 150 year period from the early 1800's to the 1950's. They are from the 3 culture areas ofthe Pacific: Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. All form of matter including wood, shell, fiber, bone and skin, ivory, pottery, stone, and human hair are part of the artifact assemblage. The specimens (not studied for this project) include birds, lava, coral, shells, seed and seed pods, and dried vegetable matter. These Pacific Islands materials were singled out for concerted attention because of the collection's size, quality, history, and exhibition-education potential. Research fund were received from the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, with matching support from the Division of Public Programming Services of the Department of Public Parks, and untold hours of dedicated volunteered time vby the project researchers.