ISBN:
9783825362904
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (309 p)
Series Statement:
Heidelberg Studies in Pacific Anthropology v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version The Accounts of Jong : A Discussion of Time, Space, and Person in Kayan, Papua New Guinea
DDC:
540.92
Keywords:
Anthropology -- Papua New Guinea
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Papua New Guinea -- Science
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The author of this book investigates a system of indigenous thought that pervades the life in Kayan, a village at the North-Coast of Papua New Guinea in a multitude of ways. The material is framed from the perspective of the former village elder Blasius Jong. With its roots in pre-missionary time, this system links different spheres of life and constitutes the basis for the organization of religious as well as of daily activities. Emanating from myths and a traditional calendar, the conceptions of person, time and space are discussed and the impact on social structure and religious life is hig
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Illustrations; Maps; Plans; Tables; Graphs; Plates; 'Tok Oraet' (from Kayan village); Note on the Spelling of Kayan na yon Words; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Leading into the Field; Ethnographic Setting or the Ethnographer's Sitting; Map 1.1: Location of Kayan; Plan 1.1: Schematic village with hamlets in 2005; Inside Jong's Head or One Possible History of Kayan; Plate 1.1: Jong explains aspects of Kayan mythology; 2 The Myth of Weakaupyor; Weakaupyor: The Eggs of the Weakaup-Bird; Elements and Comparable Stories; Historical Settlement
Description / Table of Contents:
Water and Sound: Spirits, Magic, Medicine3 Calendars - Time and Space; Calendars and Time; Plate 3.1: Sabol Meac on the roof of the men's house guards the passage of time; Kayan Calendar; Map 3.1: Aerial view of the solar ecliptic; Graph 3.1: The Kayan calendar; Plates 3.2-5: The changing sunrise; Graph 3.2: Comparison to European calendar; Seasonal Activities; Map 3.2: Aerial view of the calendar directions; Intermediary I: A Short Excursion to the Stars; Plates 3.6-3.8: The Pleiades, the Belt of Orion and Scorpio; Graph 3.3: Heliacal rising of locally important stars
Description / Table of Contents:
Graph 3.3: Heliacal rising of locally important starsThe Social Mesocosm; Plate 3.9: Waswas - the Ngombreac men's house; Plate 3.10: Sukruk - the Kainmbat men's house; Table 3.2: Social structure in Kayan; Graph 3.4: Ideal village structure from 1947; Plan 3.1: Schematic village plan with group-division; Water and Place: The Spirits and the Year; Plan 3.2: The locations of the waterholes; Map 3.3: The extended lines of the solar movement; Plan 3.3: The focus on Bari; Landscape: Places in Space; The Connection of the Spirit-Mother with Karkar Island; Plate 3.11: Sabol Meac
Description / Table of Contents:
Map 3.4: New Year line on the north coast of New GuineaIntermediary II: Orientation in Space; Graph 3.5: Kayan directional system; Graph 3.6: The wind directions; Graph 3.7: The directional verbs; The Social Macrocosm; Calendar Conclusion; Table 3.3: The annual cycle in Kayan; 4 The Kayan Person; Discussions about Personhood; Intermediary III: The Stories of Jari and Namit; Becoming Human in Kayan; Table 4.1: The stages of childhood; Intermediary IV: The Story of Maumbra; Initiation: Nourishing the Ndurum; Plate 4.1: Modern kaut on 'main informant'
Description / Table of Contents:
Plate 4.2: The procession of theinitiated menPlate 4.3: The symbolic death; Mortuary Rites: Disintegrating the Ndurum; Plate 4.4: The procession of the corpse; Plate 4.5: Spacing framework inthe grave; Plate 4.6: The house for the 'nightspirit'; Tuning in and out of Kayan Personhood; Graph 4.1: The Kayan life-cycle; Table 4.2: Modern steps into and out of personhood; The Social Microcosm; Person Conclusion; 5 Combining the Spheres; Graph 5.1: Complex-linear Kayan time; 6 Postscript 2013; Plate 6.1: Men reading the ethnography 2010; Plate 6.2: Women reading the ethnography 2010
Description / Table of Contents:
Plate 6.3: Jong with the outcome of our work
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