The accounts of Jong : A discussion of time, space, and person in Kayan, Papua New Guinea
- Bib ID:
- 6613231
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Poser, Alexis Themo von, author
- Description:
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- Heidelberg (Germany) : Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2014
- ©2014
- xvi, 292 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, 1 facsimile ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 3825362906
- 9783825362904 (paperback)
- Series:
- Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; vol. 2.
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction
- Leading into the Field
- Ethnographic Setting or the Ethnographer's Sitting
- Inside Jong's Head or One Possible History of Kayan
- 2.The Myth of Weakaupyor
- Weakaupyor: The Eggs of the Weakaup-Bird
- Elements and Comparable Stories
- Historical Settlement
- Water and Sound: Spirits, Magic, Medicine
- 3.Calendars
- Time and Space
- Calendars and Time
- Kayan Calendar
- Seasonal Activities
- Intermediary I A Short Excursion to the Stars
- The Social Mesocosm
- Water and Place: The Spirits and the Year
- Landscape: Places in Space
- The Connection of the Spirit-Mother with Karkar Island
- Intermediary II Orientation in Space
- The Social Macrocosm
- Calendar Conclusion
- 4.The Kayan Person
- Discussions about Personhood
- Intermediary III The Stories of Jari and Namit
- Becoming Human in Kayan
- Intermediary IV The Story of Maumbra
- Initiation: Nourishing the Ndurum
- Contents note continued: Mortuary Rites: Disintegrating the Ndurum
- Tuning in and out of Kayan Personhood
- The Social Microcosm
- Person Conclusion
- 5.Combining the Spheres
- 6.Postscript 2013
- 7.Compilation of Events
- 8.Gallery of Contributors
- 9.Appendices
- I.Weakaupyor
- II.Jari
- III.Namit
- IV.Maumbra.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2014
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