Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ammann, Raymond, 1957-

Description

1. xiv, 321 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 21 cm.

Series statement

1. Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; 4

Uniform title

1. Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; 4.

Alternative title

1. Ideal among the Yupno in Papua New Guinea
2. Yupno in Papua New Guinea

Subject

1. Yupna (Papua New Guinean people)
2. Yupna (Papua New Guinean people) > Music
3. Yupna (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs
4. Social interaction > Papua New Guinea > Finisterre Range
5. Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Finisterre Range
6. Ethnology
7. Social conditions
8. Social interaction
9. Kognitionswissenschaft
10. Interdisziplinarität
11. Persönlichkeitsentwicklung
12. Lokales Wissen
13. Kognition
14. Yupno
15. Finisterre Range (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions
16. Papua New Guinea > Finisterre Range
17. Papua-Neuguinea

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.