The gently bowing person : an ideal among the Yupno in Papua New Guinea / Jürg Wassmann, with contributions by Raymond Ammann [and 5 others].

Author
Wassmann, Jürg [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016]
Description
xiv, 321 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 21 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: THE BEGINNING
    • The Finisterre Range
    • Essential Questions
    • The Morning of June 25
    • 1. The Setting. When Heaven Fell to Earth
    • Prologue
    • Time of Darkness
    • Distinguishing Gene Lines from Affines / James Slotta
    • The Lutherans Arrives
    • Assessing Otherness
    • Epilogue
    • 2. The Concept of the Person / Verena Keck
    • One Long Look Backwards and One Forward
    • The Gently Bowing Person
    • Body Parts and Number Line / Pierre R. Dasen
    • The Debate about Oppressing Problems and Yamane's Sickness
    • Development and Degradation
    • 3. The Sound of a Person
    • Anangwin or Mumbianke?
    • I Sing Your Melody
    • In the Depth of the Night: The Voices of the Ancestors / Verena Keck
    • What Happens During Memorization and Recall?
    • Recognising kongap / Raymond Ammann
    • 4. To Be Cool
    • Manipulations
    • Looking for a Thief
    • In Three Versions
    • The Induced Situation / Pierre R. Dasen
    • Subsequent Verbal Explanations
    • The Debate about Dreams and Yamane's Death
    • 5. The Person Between Downhill and Uphill
    • Outer Limits
    • Inner Limits
    • A Walk through the Village
    • Posing the Orientation Problem
    • Worlds in Mind
    • Survey and Journey
    • 6. Time In Space
    • The Question of What is Natural in Spatial Description
    • Frames of Reference
    • Space Games
    • Where the Future is Uphill / Kensy Cooperrider.
    Other title(s)
    • Ideal among the Yupno in Papua New Guinea
    • Yupno in Papua New Guinea
    ISBN
    • 9783825366223 ((pbk.))
    • 3825366227 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016418957
    OCLC
    952323635
    International Article Number
    • 9783825366223
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