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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].
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .W358 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wassmann, Jürg, author.
- Series:
- Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; 4.
- Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yupna (Papua New Guinean people).
- Yupna (Papua New Guinean people)--Music.
- Yupna (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.
- Social interaction--Papua New Guinea--Finisterre Range.
- Social interaction.
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Finisterre Range.
- Ethnology.
- Social conditions.
- Finisterre Range (Papua New Guinea)--Social conditions.
- Finisterre Range (Papua New Guinea).
- Papua New Guinea--Finisterre Range.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 321 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Ideal among the Yupno in Papua New Guinea
- Yupno in Papua New Guinea
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-309) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783825366223
- 3825366227
- OCLC:
- 952323635
- Publisher Number:
- 99993277047
- 9783825366223
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