Title: Sepik heritage :
Authors: Lutkehaus, Nancy.
Date: 1990
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press,
Physical description: xxii, 663 p., [3] p. of plates : ill., 3 maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Preface / Cherubim Dambui -- Prologue / Meinhard Schuster -- Prologue / Lita Osmundsen -- Foreword / Douglas Newton -- Introduction / Nancy Lutkehaus -- Concepts of the past : introduction / Meinhard Schuster -- Aspects of the Aibom concept of history / Meinhard Schuster -- Aibom genealogy as history / Gisela Schuster -- The Nyaura concepts of space and time / Jürg Wassmann -- The Japandai migrations / Lawrence Bragge -- Reconstructuring first contact : some local effects of labor recruitment in the Sepik / Richard Scaglion -- Seventh-Day Adventism and the Boroi image of the past / Sasha Josephides -- Intercultural connections : introduction / Meinhard Schuster -- Sepik prehistory / Pamela Swadling -- Open structures : aspects of cross-cultural influence in the Sepik in relation to Southeast Asia, India, and the Middle East / H. Philsooph. Diversity of cultures or culture of diversity? / Colin Filer -- Is the Mountain Ok culture a Sepik culture? / Barry Craig -- Masquerade as artifact in Wamu / Peter B. Huber -- The power of culture and the culture of power / Anthony Forge -- Impact of the West : introduction / Christian Kaufmann -- Political and social change in the East Sepik : a research agenda / R.J. May -- The importance of being equal : the colonial and postcolonial experience in the Torricelli foothills / Bryant Allen -- The bishops' progress : representations of missionary experience on the Sepik frontier / Mary Taylor Huber -- Business and the romance of community cooperation on Kairiru Island / Michael French Smith -- Economic development at the grass roots : Wagu village 1963-83 / T. Wayne Dye. Tradition and change in Kwanga villages / Markus Schindlbeck -- The response to tourism in Yensan / Jürg Schmid -- Cultural changes in Gargar society / Hanns Peter -- Social relations and authority : introduction / Nancy Lutkehaus -- Gestures of support / Gilbert Lewis -- Social structure of the Iatmul / Milan Stanek -- Land in the Abelam village of Kimbangwa / Barbara Huber-Greub -- Boars' tusks and flying foxes : symbolism and ritual of office in the Murik Lakes / David Lipset -- The Tambaran of the Tanepoa : traditional and modern forms of leadership on Manam Island / Nancy Lutkehaus -- The chief of the Chambri : social change and cultural permeability among a New Guinea people / FrederickErrington and Deborah Gewertz -- Person and socialization : introduction / Nancy Lutkehaus. The dynamics of siblingship : nurturance and authority in Murik society / Kathleen Barlow -- The child's role in the economy of Palimbei / Florence Weiss -- Person, reciprocity, and change : explorations of Burridge in Bun / Nancy McDowell -- Concepts of the person in Avatip religious thought / Simon Harrison -- Fighting for their lives : the problem of cultural authenticity in today's Sepik / Donald Tuzin -- Engendering gender : introduction / William E. Mitchell -- Our women are okay : aspects of Hiyewe women's status / Patricia K. Townsend -- Male ideology and cultural fantasy in Yafar society / Bernard Juillerat -- Gender and the cosmos in Kwoma culture / Margaret Holmes Williamson -- Utopian visions and the division of labor in Abelam society / Diane Losche -- Male initiation among the Yangoru Boiken / Paul Roscoe.
Notes: Papers were originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Subject headings (LCSH): East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea); East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.; Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--East Sepik Province.; Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Sandaun Province.; Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.; Papua New Guinea--Antiquities--Congresses.; Papua New Guinea--History--Congresses.; Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs--Congresses.; Sandaun Province (Papua New Guinea); Sandaun Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.; Sandaun Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and cutsoms.; Sepik River Valley (New Guinea)--Social life and customs.