The man who would not die : the autobiography of an Orokaiva man / by Lucian Vevehupa ; translated by André Iteanu
- Bib ID:
- 6299320
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Vevehupa, Lucian, 1942-, author
- Description:
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- Port Moresby : UNPG Press & Bookshop, [2013]
- ©2013
- 70 pages : coloured illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9789980879134
- 9980879130
- Full contents:
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- 1. Fr. Lucian Vevehupa's story and the story of our customs
- 2. The story of the Asigi people
- 3. The gift-giving feasts that the Asigi held
- 4. Feast that's held when a girl has her first menses and is locked up
- 5. The ceremony called jape andihe ("catch the grandmothers")
- 6. This last ceremony is the one we do for the deceased
- 7. The story of my grandfathers' and grandmothers' axe and knife
- 8. How Papua New Guinean men and women marry
- 9. Story of the Ombisisire clan's chief, Samson Aruha
- 10. How the Asigi people hunt their game
- 11. How a man's wealth is counted
- 12. What we do when a friend from another village visits us
- 13. What a young couple does to show their respect to their fathers- and mothers-in-law
- 14. Women and the single boys and girls who commit suicide
- 15. Begging between friends
- 16. The relation between husband and wife
- 17. What the people believed in ancient times
- 18. How one can be happy, in good humour and generous
- 19. How the people lived before
- 20. The story of the pig that attacked and ate the Asigi people
- 21. I, Fr. Lucian Vevehupa, shall now tell you my story, starting from the day of my birth in my province.
- Notes:
- In English and Orokaiva
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Itéanu, André, translator
- Copyright:
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