[PDF] Inside The Dani Tribe eBook

Author : Kimy Chang
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
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ISBN : 9780464653011

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Deep in the highlands of Western New Guinea, Indonesia lives one of the world's most isolated tribes. With similarities to how pre-historic men once lived, the Dani tribe struggles to protect their cultures and their traditional way of living. One of their customs is the wearing of Koteka - known as the penis Sheath, typically worn by Males; self-mutilation is also practised by the women. Women cut off the end of their own fingers or tip of the ears to mark the loss of their close family members, showing respect and grieving. The practice to symbolize the pain one feels after losing a loved one. Using arrows to hunt and earth-ovens to cook their meals still exist as the main way of living. However, this will soon vanish with our modern development. With their uniqueness and liberal way of dressing, they are indeed one of the most interesting tribes in the world.

Author : Harlan Flick
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2017-10-13
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ISBN : 9781977740311

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If you could step back in time thousands of years to the Stone Age, would you do it? If you could journey to one of the most remote and isolated geographic regions in the world, could you bring yourself to make such a trip? Come join the 1980 expedition as six intrepid travelers journey to visit the head hunting tribesmen of Irian Jaya where pigs are traded for wives, where self mutilation is expected, and ritual wars are fought to appease the ghosts of the dead. Come join us in the land where Michael Rockefeller died. Welcome to the Baliem Valley, land of the Dani tribes.

Author : David Scovill
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1602661170

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Scovill shares his inspiring experiences of serving as a missionary with his family in Indonesia--primarily with the Dani tribespeople in the mountainous area of Papua--for nearly 50 years. (Social Issues)

Author : Zulyani Hidayah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811518351

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This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the traditions, cultures, kinship norms, and other significant cultural aspects of the tribes, or otherwise named ethnic groups, of Indonesia, by an Indonesian anthropologist. The entries are supported by illustrations drawn by the late author himself, and are also accompanied by maps indicating the geographic locations and distributions of each tribe throughout the vast archipelago. Originally written and published in Bahasa Indonesian, the text has been translated into English and revised to feature up-to-date information. In showcasing the extent of diversity and the distinctiveness of the numerous tribal cultures in Indonesia, the volume presents itself as an important academic reference in Indonesian anthropology and ethnography studies, now finally available to global readership. Intended as a short work of reference, it will be indispensable to students and scholars researching Indonesia from anthropological, sociocultural, and ethnographic perspectives.

Author : Susan Meiselas
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Dani (New Guinea people)
ISBN :

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Nearly sixty years after the Dani of the West Papuan highlands were first discovered by the West, Susan Meiselas presents this photographic record of their interactions with different groups. These range from Dutch colonialists right through to 1990s tourists.

Author : Karl G. Heider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351483366

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For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression.

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 1996-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801853005

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Although instances of deliberate skin-cutting are recorded as far back as the old and New Testaments of the Bible the behavior has generally been regarded as a symptom of various mental disorders. With the publication of Bodies Under Siege, a book described in the New York Times Magazine (July 17, 1997) as "the first to comprehensively explore self-mutilation," Dr. Armando Favazza has pioneered the study of the behavior as significant and meaningful unto itself. Drawing from the latest case studies from clinical psychiatry he broadens our understanding of self-mutilation and body modification and explores their surprising connections to the elemental experiences of healing, religions, salvation, and social balance. Favazza makes sense out of seemingly senseless self-mutilative behaviors by providing both a useful classification and examination of the ways in which the behaviors provide effective but temporary relief from troublesome symptoms such as overwhelming anxiety, racing thoughts, and depersonalization. He offers important new information on the psychology and biology of self-mutilation, the link between self-mutilation and eating disorders, and advances in treatment. An epilogue by Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement, describes his role in influencing a new generation to "experiment with the previously forbidden 'body side' of life" through piercing, blood rituals, scarification, and body sculpting in order to attain a state of grace. The second edition of Bodies Under Siege is the major source of information about self-mutilation, a much misunderstood behavior that is now coming into public awareness.

Author : Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780415359610

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As the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani's conversion to Christianity, examining the social, religious and political uses to which they have put their new religion. While its indigenous population is Papuan and its dominant religions are Christianity and animism, West Papua contains a growing number of Papuan Muslims. Farhadian provides the first study of this highland Papuan group in an urban context which helps distinguish it from the typical highland Papuan ethnography. Incorporating cultural and structural approaches, the book affords a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between Christianity, Islam, and nationalism.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101606002

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The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.