Jan Verschueren's description of Yéi-nan culture : extracted from the posthumous papers / J. van Baal.
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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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The Hague :
M. Nijhoff,
1982.
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| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
99. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | 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 provides genuine inside information and his data are new and authentic. The four papers in this volume create a picture of a typical lowland culture with a surprising emphasis on headhunting, an uncommon way of segregating the sexes, and a highly elaborated system of phallic symbolism. Topics discussed in this volume are territorial, clan and moiety organization; kinship, marriage and conjugal life; the founding myths of Yéi-nan ritual and other rituals; initiation; sickness and healing; death, burial and mortuary feasts; other ceremonies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 107 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107). |
| ISBN: | 9004287302 9789004287303 9024761859 9789024761852 |