Tikopia Ritual and Belief
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Tikopia Ritual and Belief is a classic ethnographic study by anthropologist Raymond Firth that examines the religious practices, ceremonial life, and cosmology of the Tikopia people of the Solomon Islands.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22625843 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tikopia Ritual and Belief Context triple: [Raymond Firth, notableWork, Tikopia Ritual and Belief]
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We, the Tikopia (by Raymond Firth)
"We, the Tikopia" is a classic ethnographic monograph by anthropologist Raymond Firth that provides an in-depth study of the social structure, culture, and daily life of the Polynesian people of Tikopia.
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B.
New Guinea societies
New Guinea societies are diverse indigenous cultural groups on the island of New Guinea whose gender roles, social structures, and temperaments were famously examined by anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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A Peep at Polynesian Life
A Peep at Polynesian Life is the subtitle of Herman Melville’s 1846 semi-autobiographical travel narrative Typee, which recounts his experiences among the indigenous people of the Marquesas Islands.
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D.
How Natives Think
"How Natives Think" is an early 20th-century anthropological and philosophical study by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl that controversially argues so-called "primitive" societies possess a fundamentally different, more mystical mode of thought than Western rationalism.
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E.
Sorcerers of Dobu
Sorcerers of Dobu is an anthropological study by Reo Fortune examining the culture, social structure, and belief systems of the people of Dobu Island in Melanesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tikopia Ritual and Belief Target entity description: Tikopia Ritual and Belief is a classic ethnographic study by anthropologist Raymond Firth that examines the religious practices, ceremonial life, and cosmology of the Tikopia people of the Solomon Islands.
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A.
We, the Tikopia (by Raymond Firth)
"We, the Tikopia" is a classic ethnographic monograph by anthropologist Raymond Firth that provides an in-depth study of the social structure, culture, and daily life of the Polynesian people of Tikopia.
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B.
New Guinea societies
New Guinea societies are diverse indigenous cultural groups on the island of New Guinea whose gender roles, social structures, and temperaments were famously examined by anthropologist Margaret Mead.
-
C.
A Peep at Polynesian Life
A Peep at Polynesian Life is the subtitle of Herman Melville’s 1846 semi-autobiographical travel narrative Typee, which recounts his experiences among the indigenous people of the Marquesas Islands.
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D.
How Natives Think
"How Natives Think" is an early 20th-century anthropological and philosophical study by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl that controversially argues so-called "primitive" societies possess a fundamentally different, more mystical mode of thought than Western rationalism.
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E.
Sorcerers of Dobu
Sorcerers of Dobu is an anthropological study by Reo Fortune examining the culture, social structure, and belief systems of the people of Dobu Island in Melanesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
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