Abstract
Bernard Juillerat followed in Richard Thurnwald’s footsteps as a result of their common interest in the impact of specific social structures on the psyche of individuals. Both considered research in New Guinea as particularly rewarding for answering such questions in an area unaffected by European-American culture. This article will discuss Bernard's restudy of a group of people, living by the Keram river, which had first been contacted by Thurnwald in 1913 and had been described by him as “the Bánaro”. Their complex social structure, analysed by Thurnwald in two different publications in 1916 and 1920, made them the subject of one of the earliest monographs on a Melanesian society. In restudying and analysing Thurnwald's work Juillerat, like Thurnwald, contributed significantly to the history of ethnology.
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