Ku Waru: language and segmentary politics in the western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
1991
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language
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| adam_text | KuWaru
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Contents
List of illustrations viii
List of tables ix
List of abbreviations x
Preface and acknowledgments xii
1 Introduction 1
1 1 Towards an anthropology of events 1
1 2 Who conducts exchange? Problems of representation and
agency in some Highlands exchange systems 8
1 3 Summary argument 17
2 The setting 20
2 1 Location, geography and regional populations 20
2 2 European exploration and post-contact development 23
2 3 Indigenous and introduced orders 28
2 4 Ethnographic sources 30
2 5 Talk in the public domain: an introduction 31
3 Some aspects of Ku Waru segmentary sociality 34
3 1 The nature of Ku Waru segmentary structures 34
3 2 Structure and history of some western Nebilyer talafi ( tribes ) 45
3 3 Conclusion 55
4 Ceremonial exchange and marriage in the western Nebilyer Valley 57
4 1 Structure and history of western Nebilyer ceremonial exchange 57
4 2 Nebilyer marriage, exchange and segmentary politics in
comparative perspective 67
Contents
5 Some linguistic structures of segmentary politics 88
5 1 Forms of reference and address and their relevance for social action 89
5 2 The grammar of segmentary person 95
5 3 Bung ( fight talk ) 98
5 4 Ungeke ( bent speech ) 102
5 5 Speech genres, tropes and remarks on interpretation 109
5 6 Rhetorical questions 111
5 7 Pairing 113
5 8 Talk about talk 116
6 Warfare compensation payment to Laulku: an analysis 122
6 1 Immediate background and synopsis of the event 123
6 2 Topical analysis 129
7 Compensation at Palimung and the Kulka women s club 156
7 1 Western Nebilyer women s clubs 158
7 2 Unfolding of the event 160
7 3 Interlude on a subsequent event at Kopola 185
7 4 The accomplishment of the Kulka women s club 187
8 The events in perspective 198
8 1 Structures and processes of segmentation and exchange 198
8 2 The segmentary order and the Kulka women s club 210
8 3 Action and representation, structure and event 214
9 Perspectives on event 221
9 1 The concealed and the revealed in persons and events 224
9 2 Contingent juxtaposition 236
9 3 Active disposition 238
9 4 Concluding remarks: action and meaning 239
Appendix A: Transcript of proceedings at Kailge on July 24,1983 245
Appendix B: Grammatical sketch of Bo Ung, Ku Waru dialect 322
B I Introduction 322
B 2 Phonology and phonetics 323
B 3 Words and phrases 325
B 4 Syntax 337
Appendix C: The conduct of warfare 344
Contents
Appendix D- Ku Warn metalinguistic expressions 347
Chapter notes 350
Glossary 367
References 373
Index 381
Tables
TABLES
3-1 Segments of Wiyal Kopia 46
3-2 Segments of Araim Kopia 46
3-3 Palimi segments resident at Kailge/Ibumuyl 52
4-1 Phases of a Nebilyer makayl exchange cycle 58
4-2 Kopia-Kubuka external exchange transactions 60
4-3 Kopia Tolab contributions to the 1975 makayl payment to
Kubuka 61
4-4 Kopia Galka to Poika Lopanuyl yi pengi payment, 1984 64
4-5 Bridewealth offers and payments 72
4-6 Rank order of current Kopia, Kubuka and Palimi men s
marriages 76
4-7 Rank order of current Kopia, Kubuka and Palimi
women s marriages 79
4-8 Marriages between Kopia-Kubuka and Tea-Dena 84
5-1 Plural references in el ung vs elsewhere 101
6-1 Phases of speech-making at the Kailge compensation event 128
6-2 Alternative constructions of some enchained inter-talapi
relationships 143
8-1 Orders of relevant segmentary difference at the
Kailge and Palimung exchange events 199
8-2 Types of transactional relationship at issue in the
Kailge and Palimung exchange events 202
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