PEP | Article - The Orphan Child Among the Gunantuna: By Joseph Meier. Washington, D. C.: Publications of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, Vol. II, 1939, pp. 63–128.

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Abstract

This publication of the well-known missionary and anthropologist contains an interesting and detailed description of the status of an

orphan among the Gunantuna and also of the emotional attitudes regarding orphans. The usual word for orphan means 'the bereft one', but another expression denotes the orphan as 'a child faulty, erring, or abnormal' (p. 68) or as 'a child that has come out of its mother's rectum' (p. 70).

PEP | Article - The Orphan Child Among the Gunantuna: By Joseph Meier. Washington, D. C.: Publications of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, Vol. II, 1939, pp. 63–128. - Róheim, Géza