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Indigenous peoples --- Aboriginal Australians --- Mineral industries --- Landscapes --- Autochtones --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Mines --- Paysages --- Land tenure --- Social aspects --- Mythology --- Symbolic aspects --- Terres --- Industrie --- Aspect social --- Mythologie --- Aspect symbolique --- Australiens (Aborigènes)
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The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and individual styles. Though their existence has previously been noted by researchers working in the Highlands, and some recordings made of them, most of these genres have not been studied in detail until quite recently, mainly because of the challenging range of disciplinary expertise that is required" in anthropology, linguistics, and ethnomusicology. This volume presents a set of interrelated studies by researchers in all of those fields, and by a Papua New Guinea Highlander who has assisted with the research based on his lifelong familiarity with one of the regional genres. The studies presented here (all of them previously unpublished and written especially for this volume) are of groundbreaking significance not only for specialists in Melanesia or the Pacific, but also for readers with a more general interest in comparative poetics, mythology, musicology, or verbal art.
Folk songs, Papuan --- Folk music --- Duna (Papua New Guinean people) --- Chansons folkloriques papoues --- Musique folklorique --- Duna (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Music --- Histoire et critique --- Musique --- Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political --- Epic poetry. --- Heroic poetry --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Comparative musicology --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Papua Niugini --- Papua-Neuguinea --- PNG --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- Papua Nugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Niu Gini --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Ethnomusicology --- Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Poetry --- Folklore --- Ethnology --- Musicology --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- 78.37
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The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. Although much has been written about them, previous accounts have concentrated far less on the conduct of exchange events than on the structure of exchange systems. This 1991 book deals centrally with the conduct of particular exchange events, and shows through examination of them how larger social structures are reproduced and transformed. As part of the emphasis on exchange as social action, the book closely examines the oratory that plays a crucial part in the events. Basing their study on original fieldwork carried out in the Nebilyer Valley, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey focus on an inter related set of large-scale compensation payments which arose out of an episode of warfare. This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures and historical events; and particularly of the crucial role of talk. It will be of special interest to anthropologists and linguists.
Anthropological linguistics --- Ethnolinguistique --- Nebilyer River Valley (Papua New Guinea) --- Valléee de la Nebilyer (Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée) --- Vallée de la Nebilyer (Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée) --- Politics and government. --- Social life and customs --- Politique et gouvernement --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Social life and customs. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Nebilyer Valley (Papua New Guinea)
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Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This volume is the first in-depth work to do just that: it situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and "place"--an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.Contributors: Lissant Boltan, Andrew Lattas, Anthony Redmond, Alan Rumsey, Deborah Bird Rose, Eric Kline Silverman, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Roy Wagner, Jurg Wassmann, James F. Weiner.
Papuans --- Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian --- Philosophy, Papuan --- Sacred space --- Land tenure
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"This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed descriptive analyses that the author provided are still fresh today, and in some respects they anticipate insights into the nature of sign languages that were not further explored until much more recently. The monograph is accompanied by two essays: Sherman Wilcox comments on value and relevance of the author's work in the light of much more recent work on the linguistics of sign languages. An essay by Lauren Reed and Alan Rumsey provides an up to date survey of what is now known about sign languages in Papua New Guinea. Information about sign languages in the Solomon Island is also included"--
Papua New Guinea Sign Language. --- Melanesian Sign Language --- PGNSL (Papua New Guinea Sign Language) --- Papua New Guinea --- Sign language --- Languages
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Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of linguistic diversity across the tropics and surrounding areas — New Guinea, Northern Australia, Siberia, and also the Tibeto-Burman region. The introduction brings together the recurrent themes in the grammar and the substance of the narratives. The twelve contributions to the volume address grammatical forms and categories deployed in organizing the narrative and interweaving the protagonists and the narrator. These include "ations, person of the narrator and the protagonist, mirativity, demonstratives, and clause chaining. The contributors also address the kinds of narratives told, their organization and evolution in time and space, under the impact of post-colonial experience and new means of communication via social media. The volume highlights the importance of documenting narrative tradition across indigenous languages.
Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- Languages. --- Clause Chaining. --- Mirativity. --- Narratives. --- Quotations.
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What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize structure, power, and interest. Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment, reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly “ordinary,” pervasive—and possibly even intrinsic to speech and action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism. Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.
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