ISBN:
9783825385743
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (622 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Heidelberg Studies in Pacific Anthropology v.7
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map 1: The Area of the Iatmul and Nyaura (in the West) -- Map 2: Sepik River (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss) and its river basin (from W. Behrmann 1912-1913) -- Map 3: The Journey of the Samblak (Ngama) -- Map 4: All the ancestral journeys of the Nyaura -- Map 5: Old sites of Gaikorobi -- Map 6: Extract of the language map by D.C. Laycock -- Map 7: The Journey of the Yagun (Pulau) -- Map 8: The Journey of the Wango (Nyaura) -- Map 9: The Journey of the Posugo (Nangusime) -- Map 10: The Journey of the Nolim (Yak) -- Map 11: The Journey of the Samangwak (Smat) -- 1: Drawing by Arnold Yangis: The Sepik River with its upper course -- 2: The three phases of the journeys -- 3: The village of Kandingei -- 4: Drawing by Arnold Yangis: The village with its houses -- 5: Wombun men's house, drawing by Behrmann 1902/03 -- 6: Dancing ground and the three men's houses -- 7: Primal beings and social organisation -- 8: Drawing by Arnold Yangis: The village of Kandingei -- 9: The mythological paths of the kangaroo of the Aranda people (Strehlow 1995: 56) -- 10: The Palingawi knotted cord of the Yagun Association -- 11: Primal beings and social organisation -- 12: Totems representing the ‚sambla' relationship -- 13: Order of the clans in the way the Nyaura number them -- 14: Geographical fixation of the social organization -- 15: Division of areas and villages among clan groups -- 16: Tree totems of clan founders -- 17: Bird totems of the first ancestress -- 18: Marriages of clan founders and first ancestresses -- 19: The village of Kandingei -- 20: The village and its clan structure -- 21: Main protagonists, which devour the novices -- 22: Genealogy of Yambune clan: ownership of names -- 23: Genealogy of Ngama clan: ownership of names -- 24: Genealogy of Tipme Yagun clan: ownership of names.
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