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Baal Jan van |
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Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture : extracted from the posthumous papers / / J. van Baal |
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Brill, 1982 |
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The Hague : , : M. Nijhoff, , 1982 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 107 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; ; 99 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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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 Yéi. These papers, based on older field notes and a research trip through the area, are recapitulated in this volume. Verschueren provides genuine inside information and his data are new and authentic. The four papers in this volume create a picture of a typical lowland culture with a surprising emphasis on headhunting, an uncommon way of segregating the sexes, and a highly elaborated system of phallic symbolism. Topics discussed in this volume are territorial, clan and moiety organization; kinship, marriage and conjugal life; the founding myths of Yéi-nan ritual and other rituals; initiation; sickness and healing; death, burial and mortuary feasts; other ceremonies. |
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