Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture : extracted from the posthumous papers

Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture extracted from the posthumous papers

Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Yéi. These papers, based on older field notes and a research trip through the area, are recapitulated in this volume. Verschueren pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Baal, Jan van, author (author), Baal van, J. (auth)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: The Hague : Brill 1982
1982.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 99.
Materias:
Verschueren, J. > (Jan), > 1905-1970.
Yei (New Guinean people)
indonesia
Canoe
Headhunting
Kava
Kupe
Marind people
Medicine man
Sago
Taan (music)
Totem
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432616006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter I. Introduction
  • Chapter II. Territorial, clan and moiety organization
  • Chapter III, Kinship, marriage, and conjugal life
  • Chapter IV. The founding myths of Yéi-nan ritual
  • Chapter V. Invitation
  • Chapter VI. Sickness and healing
  • Chapter VII. Death, Burial, and mortuary feasts
  • Chapter VIII. Other cermonies
  • Chapter IX, Miscellaneous myths
  • Chapter X. Editor's epilogue.

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