Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture : extracted from the posthumous papers /

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Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Y.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baal, Jan van
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: The Hague : M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 99.
Subjects:
Verschueren, J. > (Jan), > 1905-1970.
Verschueren, J. > (Jan), > 1905-1970
Yei (New Guinean people)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter I. Introduction
  • Chapter II. Territorial, clan and moiety organization
  • Chapter III, Kinship, marriage, and conjugal life
  • Chapter IV. The founding myths of Yéi-nan ritual
  • Chapter V. Invitation
  • Chapter VI. Sickness and healing
  • Chapter VII. Death, Burial, and mortuary feasts
  • Chapter VIII. Other cermonies
  • Chapter IX, Miscellaneous myths
  • Chapter X. Editor's epilogue.

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