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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 9/30/1976

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)

A Study of the Poro or Men's Secret Society Initiation Rituals

FAIN: FT-13106-76

Beryl L. Bellman
Regents of the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093-0013)

To study the Fala Kpelle men's secret society or Poro bush schools and initiation ceremonies. Recording through video and audio tapes the events surrounding the initiation and education ceremonies of the bush society before planned modernization of the area changes the rituals.