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Autore: | Baal Jan van |
Titolo: | Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture : extracted from the posthumous papers / / J. van Baal |
Pubblicazione: | Brill, 1982 |
The Hague : , : M. Nijhoff, , 1982 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 107 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 306.09953 |
Soggetto topico: | Yei (New Guinean people) |
Soggetto non controllato: | indonesia |
Canoe | |
Headhunting | |
Kava | |
Kupe | |
Marind people | |
Medicine man | |
Sago | |
Taan (music) | |
Totem | |
Persona (resp. second.): | Baal vanJ |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107). |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture |
ISBN: | 90-04-28730-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910156500503321 |
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