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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
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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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DU740.42 .W37 2016
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Yupna (Papua New Guinean people)
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Yupna (Papua New Guinean people)
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Music
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Yupna (Papua New Guinean people)
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Social life and customs
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Social interaction
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Papua New Guinea
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Finisterre Range
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Ethnology
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Papua New Guinea
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Finisterre Range
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Finisterre Range (Papua New Guinea)
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Social conditions
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Contributor
Ammann, Raymond, 1957-
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Series
Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; 4.
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Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; 4
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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.
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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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