[PDF] The Dugum Dani A Papecan Culture In The Highlands Of West New Guinea eBook

Author : Karl G. Heider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 12,80 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 Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights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 : Kal Muller
Publisher : New Guinea Communications, Volume 12
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2023-03-10
Category :
ISBN : 9783962032630

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THE BOOK The Dani group, centered in the Baliem Valley, has long taken the world's attention. It is by far the best-known ethnic group in West New Guinea, ever since its discovery by the aptly named American explorer Richard Archbold in 1938. While some Dutch groups had passed close by during previous nears, none had seen the valley itself with its high population of 50,000 to 100,000. The flat, fertile valley bottom was expertly farmed with irrigation and drainage in geometrically laid out fields of raised mounds that produced bumper crops of sweet potatoes. The Dani group was discovered when Archbold flew his hydroplane overhead and was suitably impressed by the gardens beautiful, orderly layout. He also saw some mysterious tall erections dispersed in several areas on the flat land. These structures turned out to be watchtowers, ready to alert the nearby inhabitants of the approach of a hostile group. For large-scale warfare was the way of life in the Baliem. Divided into several large alliances, hostilities were never-ending, punctured by short periods of relative peace. After the Archbold Expedition left the valley, the next visitors were American Evangelical missionaries who landed on the Baliem River in their new hydroplane. They established a base there and began proselytizing a full two years before the Dutch opened their first post there. A few years later, an American filming expedition from Harvard University was able to film the daily life as well as some actual battles, fought with spears, bows and arrows. The film, Dead Birds, was screened to many audiences in the US and elsewhere. The missionaries among the Dani were not very successful. This was in stark contrast with the Lani (also called Western Dani) who lived in the northernmost part of the Baliem Valley and spread far toward the east in West New Guinea's central highlands. They had been successfully proselytized by American Evangelicals based in Enarotali, on the shore of Lake Paniai. The L

Author : Kimy Chang
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category :
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 : Alexandra Esimaje
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2022-12-28
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ISBN : 9783962032470

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The fourth volume of the CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics (C-JEL 4) contains fourteen (14) well-researched papers in the fields of English and literary studies, some of which emerged from a conference of English teachers in colleges of education in Nigeria. The papers are based on various topics such as history of the English language in Africa, applied linguistics, New Englishes, academic literacy, semiotics, and analysis of poetry and prose as tools of social, economic and political conflict management. The Centre for Language Research and English Proficiency (CLAREP) is an educational non-governmental, non-profit organisation whose focus is on the advancement of language research in Africa and the promotion of the proficient use of language in all its spheres.

Author : Susan Meiselas
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 37,5 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.