| Description |
xxii, 663 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Father Cherubim Dambui -- Prologue / Meinhard Schuster -- Prologue / Lita Osmundsen -- Foreword / Douglas Newton -- Introduction / Nancy Lutkehaus -- Aspects of the Aibom concept of history / Meinhard Schuster -- Aibom genealogy as history / Gisela Schuster -- The Nyaura concepts of space and time / Jürg Wassmann -- The Japandai migrations / Lawrence Bragge -- Reconstructing first contact : some local effects of labor recruitment in the Sepik / Richard Scaglion -- Seventh-Day Adventism and the Boroi image of the past / Sasha Josephides -- Sepik prehistory / Pamela Swadling -- Open structures : aspects of cross-cultural influence in the Sepik in relation to Southeast Asia, India, and the Middle East / H. Philsooph -- Diversity of cultures or culture of diversity? / Colin Filer -- Is the Mountain Ok culture a Sepik culture? / Barry Craig -- Masquerade as artifact in Wamu / Peter B. Huber -- The power of culture and the culture of power / Anthony Forge -- Political and social change in the East Sepik : a research agenda / R.J. May -- The importance of being equal : the colonial and postcolonial experience in the Torricelli foothills / Bryant Allen -- The bishops' progress : representations of missionary experience on the Sepik frontier / Mary Taylor Huber -- Business and the romance of community cooperation on Kairiru Island / Michael French Smith -- Economic development at the grass roots : Wagu Village 1963-83 / T. Wayne Dye -- Tradition and change in Kwanga villages / Markus Schindlbeck -- The response to tourism in Yensan / Jürg Schmid -- Cultural changes in Gargar society / Hanns Peter -- Gestures of support / Gilbert Lewis -- Social structure of the Iatmul / Milan Stanek -- Land in the Abelam village of Kimbangwa / Barbara Huber-Greub -- Boars' tusks and flying foxes : symbolism and ritual of office in the Murik Lakes / David Lipset -- The tambaran of the tanepoa : traditional and modern forms of leadership on Manam Island / Nancy Lutkehaus -- The chief of the Chambri : social change and cultural permeability among a New Guinea people / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz -- The dynamics of siblingship : nurturance and authority in Murik society / Kathleen Barlow -- The child's role in the economy of Palimbei / Florence Weiss -- Person, reciprocity, and change : explorations of Burridge in Bun / Nancy McDowell -- Concepts of the person in Avatip religious thought / Simon Harrison -- Fighting for their lives : the problem of cultural authenticity in today's Sepik / Donald Tuzin -- Our women are okay : aspects of Hiyewe women's status / Patricia K. Townsend -- Male ideology and cultural fantasy in Yafar society / Bernard Juillerat -- Gender and the cosmos in Kwoma culture / Margaret Holmes Williamson -- Utopian visions and the division of labor in Abelam society / Diane Losche -- Male initiation among the Yangoru Boiken / Paul Roscoe -- Male initiation and European intrusion in the Sepik : a preliminary analysis / Paul Roscoe and Richard Scaglion -- Therapeutic systems of the Taute Wape / William E. Mitchell -- Health care alternatives in Maindroin / Chris Haiveta -- Sanguma in Abrau and Kwieftim / Antje Kelm -- Plants in Abelam medicine / Werner H. Stöcklin -- The study of food in its cultural context / Brigit Obrist -- In the swamps and on the hills : traditional settlement patterns and house structures in the Middle Sepik -- Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- The architecture and art of Kwoma ceremonial houses / Ross Bowden -- Sepik River architecture : changes in cultural traditions / Christian Coiffier -- Art styles among the Boiken / Patricia May -- Symbolic meaning in Kominimung masks / Dirk Smidt -- Music in Tambunam / Rhoda Métraux -- The Yumanwusmangge ceremony at Aibom / Gordon D. Spearritt -- Tapets : drum signals of the Sawos / Thomas C. Aitken -- Sepik pottery research and its relevance for Papua New Guinea / Margaret Tuckson -- The Village Studies Project for the Recording of Traditional Architecture / Wallace M. Ruff and Ruth E. Ruff -- Swiss and German ethnographic collections as source materials : a report on work in progress / Christian Kaufmann -- Sepik artifacts in the national and provincial framework / John Wasori -- The National Cultural Property (Preservation) Act and the art of the Sepik / Soroi Marepo Eoe -- Las toktok bilong ol masalai / Andrew Strathern |
| Notes |
Outgrowth of Wenner-Gren Foundation International Symposium #95, entitled "Sepik Research Today: The Study of Sepik Culture in and for Papua New Guinea," held in Basel, Switzerland, August 19-26, 1984. (Prologue, Foreword and Wenner-Gren Foundation Web site) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-631) and indexes |
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Sepik River Region
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)
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Ethnology -- Sepik River Region (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)
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Ethnology -- Sepik River Region (New Guinea)
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Ethnology -- Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)
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Sepik River Region (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) -- History
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Sepik River Region (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
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Sepik River Region (New Guinea) -- History
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Sepik River Region (New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
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Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96001008 -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
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Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96001008 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96001008 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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Sepik River Valley (Papua New Guinea) -- History
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Sepik River Valley (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
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| Author |
Lutkehaus, Nancy, editor
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Symposium (95th : 1984 : Basel, Switzerland)
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| ISBN |
1863330143 |
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9781863330145 |
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