ISBN:
9783825385743
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 602 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
1. Auflage
Serie:
Heidelberg Studies in Pacific Anthropology 7
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
390
Schlagwort(e):
Papua Neu Guinea
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20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
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21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2100 n. Chr.)
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Ozeanien
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Papua-Neuguinea
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Sepik
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Kulturanthropologie
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Kognitionswissenschaft
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Psychologie
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Nyaura
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Iatmul
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Personkonzepte
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Pazifikraum
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Ethnologie
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Initiation
;
rituelle Gesänge
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Knotenschnüre
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Namenkonzepte
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Totems
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Sozialstruktur
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Kandingei
;
Timbunmeli
Kurzfassung:
This rich ethnography, a thoroughly revised version of a book published in 1991, presents long-term and new research findings on the Nyaura (or West Iatmul) people, a society on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Nyaura mythology centres around the primeval journeys of their ancestors who – accompanied by powerful, versatile crocodiles – formed the landscape and founded settlements; it is expressed and stored in numerous long song cycles and visualised in unique knotted cords. These songs express the Nyaura’s worldview, their thoughts on the social order, and the concept of the person. In this comprehensive monograph, the author also explores a range of current and fundamental questions from the cognitive sciences regarding the memorisation of these hundreds of songs, thus linking anthropological data with cognitive science findings. Neuropsychologists share their reflections on learning, memorising and remembering. Studies on the historiography of the Middle Sepik, on the altered concept of personhood as result of religious change, and on the dualistic structure of ceremonial music round off the monograph.
URN:
urn:nbn:de:bsz:31-epflicht-2027821
