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The Gently Bowing Person
An Ideal Among the Yupno in Papua New Guinea
Herausgeber: Ammann, Raymond | Cooperrider, Kensy | Dasen, Pierre R. | Keck, Verena | Núñez, Rafael | Slotta, James
Heidelberg Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Bd. 4
2016
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Abstract
This in-depth ethnography presents new and otherwise not easily accessible results of thirty years of anthropological field research among the Yupno people of Papua New Guinea. Anthropological studies about cultures in the Finisterre Range, where the Yupno live, have been quite scarce, and this comprehensive monograph about a local knowledge system offers an important contribution to this hitherto ethnographically little-known area. Ideas about personhood, including a unique personal melody as an individual’s acoustic representation and sign of social belonging, and cultural conceptualisations of time and space are the main topics of this book. Following a strictly interdisciplinary approach, a cross-cultural psychologist, an anthropologist, a linguist, cognitive scientists and a musicologist participated in this study. These diverse forms and intensities of collaboration are mirrored in the distinctive structure of this book, with an emphasis on co-authored chapters to represent the joint research experience.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| List of Illustrations | vii | ||
| Maps | vii | ||
| Beg. 1: The Finisterre Range | 1 | ||
| Beg. 2: Mentioned languages between 1873 and 1907 | 3 | ||
| Beg. 3: Newly mentioned languages between 1947 and 1959 | 4 | ||
| Beg. 4: Newly mentioned languages between 1960 and 1975 | 5 | ||
| 1.1: The Yupno Valley | 19 | ||
| 1.2: "Kokop kirat" flying in | 28 | ||
| 5.1: Yupno Valley | 216 | ||
| Figures | vii | ||
| 2.1: Body counting system (by Paul Yanu) | 97 | ||
| 2.2: Yamane’s relatives | 105 | ||
| 3.1: "Koñgap" sung in Gua 1 | 133 | ||
| 3.2: "Nsaguo" feather wheel (by Paul Yanu) in the middle of the book, "see" illustration 3; 3.3: Kuval kalda: One possible interpretation | 138 | ||
| 3.4: Musical notation of a "koñgap", Seiten: 142-143 | 142 | ||
| 3.5: Zaka sings Faiu | 143 | ||
| 3.6: Zaka sings Faiu – long version | 143 | ||
| 3.7: Erap sings Faiu | 144 | ||
| 3.8: Erap sings Faiu – long nucleus | 144 | ||
| 4.1: Sorting task: The system of the presented objects | 162 | ||
| 4.2: The results of the sorting task | 165 | ||
| 5.1: The coordinating system according to Danda’s earth drawing | 196 | ||
| 5.2: Schematic drawing | 199 | ||
| 5.3: The structure of a house (by Paul Yanu | 200 | ||
| 5.4: Schematic drawing showing the two houses used in the study | 201 | ||
| 5.5: Worlds in mind, Seiten: 213-215 | 213 | ||
| 5.6: Drawing according to map from Tapen to Urop | 221 | ||
| 5.7: Drawing by Sivik | 221 | ||
| 6.1: Transcription sheet for Steve’s maze | 231 | ||
| 6.2: The topography of the upper Yupno Valley (surrounding Gua village, cf. Núñez et al. 2012a: 30) | 244 | ||
| End 1: From drawing 5.4, worlds in mind | 256 | ||
| End 2: The order of foodstuff presented in sorting task (cf. Figure 4.1) | 259 | ||
| Illustrations | viii | ||
| Black and white pictures within the text | 25 | ||
| 1.3: Ponds for the deluge of the neighbouring Wantoat (Vial1938a: 41) | 25 | ||
| 1.6: The missionaries’ conference 1910 (kindly provided by Archiv Mission EineWelt) | 46 | ||
| 1.7: Yapit, the first Yupno evangelist (kindly provided by Archiv Mission EineWelt) | 47 | ||
| 3.1: Gua 1, 2005 | 132 | ||
| 3.4: "Kuval kalda", 1988 | 137 | ||
| 5.2: A Yupno house; seen from downhill and looking uphill, 1988 | 199 | ||
| 5.10: The drawing of Sivik, 2000 | 222 | ||
| 6.3: Nalamon mountain ridge 1987 | 239 | ||
| End 1: A part of the village of Gua with its bamboo groves, 2009 (© K. Cooperrider) | 256 | ||
| End 2: Grandson (Switzerland) (© Chr. Vogt; in Vogt and Jehle 1991) | 259 | ||
| Colour pictures in the middle of the book | xv | ||
| Acknowledgements | xi | ||
| The Beginning | 1 | ||
| The Finisterre Range | 1 | ||
| Essential Questions | 8 | ||
| The Morning of June 25 | 9 | ||
| 1 The Setting. When Heaven Fell to Earth | 15 | ||
| Prologue | 15 | ||
| Time of Darkness | 16 | ||
| Distinguishing Gene Lines from Affines (by James Slotta) | 30 | ||
| The Lutherans Arrives | 38 | ||
| Assessing Otherness | 49 | ||
| Epilogue | 63 | ||
| 2 The Concept of the Person (together with Verena Keck) | 71 | ||
| One Long Look Backwards and One Forward | 71 | ||
| The Gently Bowing Person | 86 | ||
| Body Parts and Number Line (together with Pierre R. Dasen) | 96 | ||
| The Debate about Oppressing Problems and Yamane’s Sickness | 105 | ||
| Development and Degradation | 117 | ||
| 3 The Sound of a Person | 125 | ||
| Anangwin or Mumbianke? | 125 | ||
| I Sing Your Melody | 129 | ||
| In the Depth of the Night: The Voices of the Ancestors (together with Verena Keck) | 136 | ||
| What Happens During Memorization and Recall | 139 | ||
| Recognising "koñgap" (together with Raymond Ammann) | 142 | ||
| 4 To Be Cool | 149 | ||
| Manipulations | 149 | ||
| Looking for a Thief – In Three Versions | 152 | ||
| The Induced Situation (together with Pierre R. Dasen) | 160 | ||
| Subsequent Verbal Explanations | 167 | ||
| The Debate about Dreams and Yamane’s Death | 174 | ||
| 5 The Person Between Downhill and Uphill | 193 | ||
| Outer Limits | 193 | ||
| Inner Limits | 196 | ||
| A Walk through the Village | 202 | ||
| Posing the Orientation Problem | 208 | ||
| Worlds in Mind | 212 | ||
| Survey and Journey | 218 | ||
| 6 Time in Space | 223 | ||
| The Question of What is Natural in Spatial Description | 223 | ||
| Frames of Reference | 226 | ||
| Space Games | 228 | ||
| Where the Future is Uphill (together with Rafael Núñez and Kensy Cooperrider) | 237 | ||
| The End: Posing Five Questions | 251 | ||
| References | 269 | ||
| Index | 311 | ||
| Back Cover | Back C |
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