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The Accounts of Jong : a Discussion of Time, Space, and Person in Kayan, Papua New Guinea.
The author of this book investigates a system of indigenous thought that pervades the life in Kayan, a village at the North-Coast of Papua New Guinea in a multitude of ways. The material is framed from the perspective of the former village elder Blasius Jong. With its roots in pre-missionary time, t...
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Heidelberg :
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2014.
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| Colección: | Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology.
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| 520 | |a The author of this book investigates a system of indigenous thought that pervades the life in Kayan, a village at the North-Coast of Papua New Guinea in a multitude of ways. The material is framed from the perspective of the former village elder Blasius Jong. With its roots in pre-missionary time, this system links different spheres of life and constitutes the basis for the organization of religious as well as of daily activities. Emanating from myths and a traditional calendar, the conceptions of person, time and space are discussed and the impact on social structure and religious life is hig. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations; 'Tok Oraet' (from Kayan village); Note on the Spelling of Kayan na yon Words; Acknowledgments; 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Water and Place: The Spirits and the YearLandscape: 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; 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 8 Gallery of Contributors9 Appendices; I: Weakaupyor; II: Jari; III: Namit; IV: Maumbra; Glossary; References; Index; List of Illustrations; Maps; Map 1.1: Location of Kayan; Map 3.1: Aerial view of the solar ecliptic; Map 3.2: Aerial view of the calendar directions; Map 3.3: The extended lines of the solar movement; Map 3.4: New Year line on the north coast of New Guinea; Plans; Plan 1.1: Schematic village with hamlets in 2005; Plan 3.1: Schematic village plan with group-division; Plan 3.2: The locations of the waterholes; Plan 3.3: The focus on Bari; Tables. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Graph 3.3: Heliacal rising of locally important starsTable 3.2: Social structure in Kayan; Table 3.3: The annual cycle in Kayan; Table 4.1: The stages of childhood; Table 4.2: Modern steps into and out of personhood; Graphs; Graph 3.1: The Kayan calendar; Graph 3.2: Comparison to European calendar; Graph 3.3: Heliacal rising of locally important stars; Graph 3.4: Ideal village structure from 1947; Graph 3.5: Kayan directional system; Graph 3.6: The wind directions; Graph 3.7: The directional verbs; Graph 4.1: The Kayan life-cycle; Graph 5.1: Complex-linear Kayan time; Plates. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Plate 1.1: Jong explains aspects of Kayan mythologyPlate 3.1: Sabol Meac on the roof of the men's house guards the passage of time; Plates 3.2-5: The changing sunrise; Plates 3.6-3.8: The Pleiades, the Belt of Orion and Scorpio; Plate 3.9: Waswas -- the Ngombreac men's house; Plate 3.10: Sukruk -- the Kainmbat men's house; Plate 3.11: Sabol Meac; Plate 4.1: Modern kaut on 'main informant'; Plate 4.2: The procession of theinitiated men; Plate 4.3: The symbolic death; Plate 4.4: The procession of the corpse; Plate 4.5: Spacing framework inthe grave; Plate 4.6: The house for the 'nightspirit' | |
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