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Rituals and Relationships in the Valley of the Sun: The Ketengban of Irian Jaya (SIL International Publications in Ethnography 30)

Author Andrew Sims
Publisher Summer Institute of Linguistics
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Author(s)Andrew Sims
ISBN / ASIN0883122715
ISBN-139780883122716
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Sales Rank4,033,424
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

Description

Looks at the culture of the Ketengban people (eastern highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia).

Describes Ketengban

  • cosmology and their view of man and the spirits
  • pregnancy and childbirth practices, and
  • kinship system.

Table of Contents


Map of Irian Jaya
Preface

  1. Of Red Men and Rituals: The Ketengban and the Supernatural
       by Andrew Sims
  2. Myth and Metaphor in Ketengban Pregnancy and Childbirth Practices
       by Anne Sims
  3. The Clans That Birthed Me: Ketengban Kinship
       by Andrew Sims and Joyce Sterner