ISBN:
978-90-04-28730-3
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 107 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 99
Keywords:
Neuguinea Ethnie, Neuguinea
;
Ritual und Zeremonie
;
Materielle Kultur
;
Lebenszyklus
;
Mythos und Legende
;
Medizin, traditionelle
;
Kopfjagd
;
Ethnographie
;
Ethnologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Yéi. These papers, based on older field notes and a research trip through the area, are recapitulated in this volume. Verschueren provides genuine inside information and his data are new and authentic. The four papers in this volume create a picture of a typical lowland culture with a surprising emphasis on headhunting, an uncommon way of segregating the sexes, and a highly elaborated system of phallic symbolism. Topics discussed in this volume are territorial, clan and moiety organization; kinship, marriage and conjugal life; the founding myths of Yéi-nan ritual and other rituals; initiation; sickness and healing; death, burial and mortuary feasts; other ceremonies. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Chapter I. Introduction -- 1. General introduction -- 2. Material culture -- 3. Economie life -- Chapter II. Territorial, Clan and Moiety Organization -- 1. Editor's introduction -- 2. The settlement -- 3. The clan and moiety organization -- Chapter III. Kinship, Marriage, and Conjugal Life -- 1. Kinship -- 2. Marriage -- 3. Conjugal life -- Chapter IV. The Founding Myths of Yéi-nan Ritual -- 1. Editor's introduction -- 2. The myth of Ndiwe -- 3. The myths of Nak and Telle -- 4. The myth of the orei-tree -- 5. The yevale and their role in the headhunting ritual -- 6. Editor's synthesis -- 7. A note on headhunting -- Chapter V. Initiation -- Chapter VI. Sickness and Healing -- Chapter VII. Death, Burial, and Mortuary Feasts -- 1. Death -- 2. Burial -- 3. Mortuary feasts -- 4. Editor's comment -- Chapter VIII. Other Ceremonies -- 1. The ceremony of the new canoe -- 2. The pig-feast -- 3. The inauguration of a new gab-elul -- 4. The signifieance of moiety dualism and headhunting -- Chapter IX. Miscellaneous Myths -- 1. Wame, the good sister -- 2. Tsakwi, the yevale of the Tawawi (Nak) -- 3. Tanggole, the aid wornan (yevale of Tawawi) -- Chapter X. Editor's Epilogue -- Notes --Bibliography -- Map of the Yéi-nan territory
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 119-126
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