Background
Monberg, Torben Axel was born on July 25, 1929 in Copenhagen. Son of Axel S.S. and Elna Elsa (Johanson) Monberg.
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Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)
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"This work by Danish anthropologist Torben Monberg is the ninth volume in the Pacific Islands Monogragph Series (PIMS) and a significant contribution to Polynesian ethnography. Bellona and Rennell islands are Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands. In pre-European times, and with minor variations, the cultures of the two islands were almost identical. Both were relatively isolated over many centuries, and their peoples were among the last Pacific Islanders to experience the presence of Europeans in the region. Moberg has had long research experience in the Solomon Islands and has conducted extensive fieldwork with the peoples of both Bellona and Rennell. His concern here, however, is with the religion of the Bellonese. Misssionaries did not come to the island until 1938, and conversion to Christianity was rapid. As common elsewhere in the Pacific, traditional beliefs were ridiculed, and rituals and ceremonies of great antiquity were soon abolished...." quoted from the Editors Note of Robert C. Kiste, about the book.
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The Religion of Bellona Island: A Study of the Place of Beliefs and Rites, etc. Part1: The Concepts of Supernaturals, etc.
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Torben Axel Monberg
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M.Hanne Birthe Salto, November 15, 1985. Magazine art, University Copenhagen, 1957,Doctor Philosophy., 1966.
Career
Professor University Copenhagen, 1969—1975. Chief curator National Museum Denmark, 1975—1980. Visiting professor University Hawaii, Honolulu, 1972.
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Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)
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The religion of Bellona Island. A study of the place of beliefs and rites in the social life of pre-Christian Bellona.
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- The Religion of Bellona Island: A Study of the Place of Beliefs and Rites, etc. Part1: The Concepts of Supernaturals, etc.
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Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)
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Member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Danish Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club.
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Married Hanne Birthe Salto, November 15, 1985. Children: Pernille M., Anders M., Christine M.
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