ISBN:
9781351319911
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (746 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Mead, Margaret Mountain Arapesh
DDC:
305.899912
Keywords:
Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
Abstract:
The Mountain Arapesh -- Volume I -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- I. AN IMPORTING CULTURE -- PREFACE -- METHOD OF PRESENTATION -- DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA -- GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS -- SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS -- DAILY LIFE -- THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH -- COMPARATIVE NOTES ON BEACH ARAPESH VILLAGES -- COMPARATIVE NOTES ON PLAINS ARAPESH VILLAGES -- SUPPORTING MATERIALS -- INTRODUCTION -- HOUSE BUILDING -- Planning a Hamlet -- House Types -- Steps in House Building -- METHODS OF CARRYING AND STORING -- USE OF COCONUT PALM LEAVES AND OF BASKETRY TECHNIQUES -- FIRE-MAKING -- CORD AND STRING MAKING -- CLOTHING -- Making a G String -- Women's Aprons -- Belt and Armband Making -- Beadwork -- Dog Teeth Stringing -- Decorated Bark Belts -- TOBACCO GROWING AND SMOKING -- ARECA NUT CHEWING -- GARDENING -- SAGO WORKING -- Cutting the Sago -- Construction of the Washing Apparatus -- Beach Deviations -- HUNTING AND TRAPPING -- Rat Trap -- Large Game Snare Trap -- Pig Trap -- Deadfall -- Bird Snare -- COOKING -- Cooking Utensils -- Butchering a Pig -- Dishes made of Sago -- Taro and Coconut Croquettes -- IMPORTS AND MOUNTAIN VERSIONS OF IMPORTS -- LOCAL ARTIFACTS, CRUDER FORMS OF BEACH TYPES -- LOCAL ARTIFACTS, CRUDER FORMS OF PLAINS TYPES -- IMPORTS WHICH THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO COPY -- THE MOUNTAIN ARAPESH SEEN AS AN IMPORTING CULTURE -- GLOSSARY AND GAZETTEER -- II. SUPERNATURALISM -- PREFACE -- METHODS OF COLLECTING AND PRESENTING THE MATERIALS -- THE PLACE OF THIS SECTION IN THE SERIES -- CLASSIFICATION OF LEVELS OF CONCRETE MATERIALS -- METHOD OF TREATMENT ADOPTED IN THIS SECTION -- SPECIFIC METHODS OF FIELD-WORK USED AMONG THE ARAPESH -- GENERAL FORMULATIONS OF ARAPESH CULTURE -- ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE NATURAL WORLD -- Cosmology -- Treatment of the Past -- Plants and Animals
Abstract:
The marsalai and the Land -- The Position of Magic -- ATTITUDES TOWARDS HUMAN BEINGS -- The Basic Sex Dichotomy -- Outline of the Rituals of Male Purification -- Female Analogues of Male Rituals -- Attitude towards Blood -- The Evidence from the Rites de Passage -- The Formulations about Growth and Food -- The Treatment of Aggression -- Incest -- The Unaggressive Practice of Hunting and Gardening -- DEATH AS AN ANOMALY -- The Position of Sorcery -- Integration of Attitudes towards Death -- The Significance of the Categories of Exuviae -- The Attribution of Death to an Outside Group -- SUMMARY -- SELECTED ARAPESH MYTHS -- CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THESE MYTHS WERE RECORDED -- TALES DEALING WITH THE VARIOUS TYPES OF ORIGINS, OF NATURAL PHENOMENA, CULTURAL USAGES, ETC. -- 1. The Stones near Tapena -- 2. The Hornbill and the Cassowary -- 3. The Times when Penes were Long -- 4. The Discovery of the Use of the Pepper Plant -- 5. The Pigs who Plotted to Fasten Men -- 6. The Origin of Death -- Version One -- Version Two -- 7. Why Dogs No Longer Talk -- Version One -- Version Two -- 8. The Dog and the Wallaby -- 9. How They Kill the Pleiades -- 10. The Sago Cutting at which the Birds Got their Characteristics -- 11. Origin of Yams from the Cassowary Mother Killed by Her Sons -- 12. The Bringing of Yams by Sharok, a Cassowary -- 13. The Dog and the Rat -- Version One -- Version Two -- 14. Origin of the Sea -- 15. Origin of the Plains -- 16. The Tale of Suabi, as Told by Unabelin of the Gens of Suabibis -- 17. The Tale of Walawahan -- TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF ETHOS -- 18. The Man of Sabigil Who Tried to Copulate with a Pig -- 19. The Man of Sabigil Who Tried to Copulate with an Ant -- 20. The Man of Sabigil Who Tried to Copulate with a Dog -- 21. The Man of Babigil Who Tried to Copulate with a Hollow Tree
Abstract:
22. The Man of Sabigil Who Tried to Cut Out Grubs with his Teeth -- 23. The Man of Sabigil Who Tried to Drink a Stream Dry -- 24. The Great Grindstone of Sabigil -- 25. The Woman Who was Pursued a marsalai in the form of a Snake -- 26. The Stone Ax of the marsalai and the Menstrual Hut Sanctuary -- 27. The Girl Who Married a marsalai and Bore Snake Children -- 28. The Two Blind Men -- 29. The Tree Rat Which Nested in the Crocodile's Belly -- 30. The Woman's Revenge on the Man Who Raped Her -- 31. The Girl Who Had No Vagina -- 32. The Cassowary Wife -- 33. The Men Who Came Out of the Bamboos -- 34. The Island of Women -- 35. The Execution of A Woman Who Angered a marsalai -- 36. The Treeful of Phalangers -- 37. The Ladder in the Clouds -- 38. The Encounter with Babamik, the Ogress -- 39. The Finding of the Triple Flutes -- Version One -- Version Two -- SELECTED ABSTRACTS FROM DOCTOR FORTUNE'S TEXTS -- Tales Illustrating Ethos -- Tales Especially Illustrative of Attitudes towards the Cultural Dichotomies -- SELECTED MATERIALS ON RITUAL BELIEF AND PRACTICE -- INTRODUCTORY -- BELIEFS CONCERNING MARSALAIS -- Use of the Term "Cult -- Characteristics and Powers of marsalais -- Relationship between marsalais and Ghosts -- THE RITUAL IDIOM -- Herbs in Ritual -- Herbs planted in Alitoa -- Classification of Herbs Used -- Use of Herbs as Clues to the Significance of the Ritual -- Differences in Locality Usage -- Summary -- The Details of Observances Connected with Food -- The Place of Food in the Culture -- Classification of Foods in Relation to Physiological Status -- Table of Food Taboos given by Unabelin of Liwo -- Classifications made by the Average Man -- Rite de Passage Food Taboos -- Ritual Procedures -- THE DETAILS OF THE RITES DE PASSAGE -- Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Pre-Natal Observances -- Kinship Curses and their Retraction -- The Birth
Abstract:
Post-Natal Observances -- RITES OF ADOLESCENCE -- Procedures Associated with Pre-Adolescent Growth -- Protective Taboos for Parents -- The Menarche Ceremony -- The Fire Circle Ceremony -- Beliefs and Practices Connected with Menstruation -- The Initiation of an Individual Boy by Members of His Own Locality -- Remarks Oil Inter-Locality Initiation Ceremonies -- Other Aspects of the tamberan Cult -- The Disciplining of Men Who Have Been Insulted -- The Tabooing of Coconuts and the Release of the Taboo -- FURTHER DETAILS OF THE ABULLU CEREMONY -- Preparations for an Abullu -- Abullu Songs -- The Abullu Dance -- The Nimaili', the Ring Exorcism Rite -- OBSERVANCES CONNECTED WITH DEATH -- Burial and Mourning -- Purification of Mourners -- Beliefs and Practices Concerning the Remarriage of Widows -- THE POSITION OF THE DEAD -- Exhumation of the Bones of the Dead for Magical Purposes -- Divinatory Practices and the Dead -- Ghosts and Divination -- The Divinatory Oven -- Omens and Portents -- Dream Interpretations -- Freeing the Homicide from the Ghost of His Victim -- Ritual of Severed Relationships -- Peace Ceremonial -- USE OF THE SUPERNATURAL TO DO HARM -- Sorcery Patterns -- The Soul in Relation to Sorcery Practices -- The Tie between the Individual and his Exuviae -- The Tie between the Individual and his Food -- The Tie with Living and Dead Kin -- Direct Vulnerability to a marsalai -- Analysis of Materials used in Sorcery -- Summary of Categories of Harm-Producing Usages -- MISCELLANEOUS PRACTICES -- Invocation of Ancestors -- Introduced Magic -- Marsalais and Sorcery Practices -- Precautions against Sorcery -- A Sample Charm -- Plains Sorcery Practice as Described by Mountain Arapesh -- SOCIAL VULNERABILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- SORCERY AND THE ARAPESH CHARACTER FORMATION -- BENEFICENT USE OF THE SUPERNATURAL -- Magic and the Rites de Passage
Abstract:
Ephemeral Character of Imported Magic -- Details of the Liwo Fishing Magic Ceremony -- The Magical Forms which Survive -- Summary of Magical Procedures -- Volume II -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- III. SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE -- PREFACE -- METHOD OF PRESENTATION -- THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- THE LOCALITY -- Linked Localities -- Locality Names -- THE GENS SYSTEM -- The Gens -- Gens Names -- THE MOIETIES -- THE KINSHIP SYSTEM -- The Kinship Terminology -- Methods of Reckoning Ego's Position -- Illustrations to Show Characteristic Shift of Position -- Other Usages Referring to Own Gens -- Extension of Kinship Ties to Other Communities -- The Two Main Classes of Kinship -- Definition of Classes -- Class One Relationships -- Class Two Relationships -- The Bases of Arapesh Marriage -- The Emotional Tone of Class Two Terms -- Kinship Curses -- Further Discussion of the Husband and Wife Relationship and Women's Kinship Attitudes -- OTHER SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS -- The Buanyin Relationship -- Trade Friends -- Leadership -- Transmission and Sponsorship Relationships -- THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE -- THE POSITION OF THE ARAPESH IN THE AREA -- THE EFFECTIVE ECONOMIC UNIT -- Planning Work -- Individuality of Economic Units -- PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE -- The Effect of Inheritance -- A Man's Immediate Economic Obligations -- Extra-household Economic Obligations -- FEASTS -- Disposition of Surplus -- Mechanics of Feast Organization -- FORMS OF EXTRA-HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC TRANSACTIONS -- Payments for Small Services -- Payments to Class Two Relatives -- FORMS OF EXTRA-HOUSEHOLD RETAINING FEES -- Economic Relationships with Buanyins -- THE ECONOMIC FUNCTION OF THE MOTHER'S BROTHER RELATIONSHIP -- IV. DIARY OF EVENTS IN ALITOA -- THE FUNCTIONING OF AN ARAPESH COMMUNITY, JANUARY 28 TO AUGUST 16, 1932 -- SETTING UP THE HOUSEHOLD -- RELATIONS WITH THE VILLAGE
Abstract:
METHODS OF WORK AND SELECTION OF EVENTS RECORDED IN THE DIARY
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