B Telban
Biographic Data
| ID | 3376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Telban |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Telban |
| SIGNATURE | TELBAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3944-9035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Kunaypa historicity: Conceptual specificity of temporal reciprocity in the Sepik, Papua New Guinea
If we accept that anthropology of history transforms history into a subject of investigation rather than just a form of knowledge and social practice, then the ethnography of history must delve into local ways of thinking, living, and acting. The language of the people is key to gaining insight into the relational and temporal modes of existence of society. Among the Karawari people of Papua New Guinea, these modes play an important role in vario…
Translating the field
Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey of translation—as do their interlocutors. Translation—of words, tone of voice, gestures, facial expressi…
Gillian Gillison, She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women. A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Over many decades, Gillian Gillison has immersed herself with almost obsessive devotion in the myths and rites of the Gimi, which she recorded during extended fieldwork visits between 1973 and 1985. The present book is in many ways an in-depth continuation and clarification of their mythic life-world that Gillison explored in her earlier book Between Culture and Fantasy. A New Guinea Highlands Mythology. In this part of Papua New Guinea’s Eastern…
Sensing the Acoustics of a New Guinea Rainforest
It was Edward Schieffelin who initiated very productive anthropological research among the Kaluli of Bosavi in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) between 1966 and 1968. In th
Karawari carved crocodiles: From spirit-beings to museum artefacts
The Karawari River region of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, is renowned for its lengthy, carved wooden crocodiles. These spirit-beings were kept in men’s houses and had an important role in headhunting and war expeditions, initiation rituals, hunting trips, and during periods of epidemics. Karawari people acted upon the world with and through them. They were also sought by art collectors and found their way into museums around the world. …
Yabar: The Alienations of Murik Men in Papua New Guinea Modernity, by David Lipset
One could say that this book deals with the particular social, cultural, economic and environmental changes in a coastal region of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), but it also makes sig
Foreword from the Editors
et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Seeing and holding time: Karawari perceptions of temporalities, calendars and clocks
Clock-time differentiates and systematises in a way rarely endorsed by small-scale societies, where the tendency is to reject hierarchy based on the measurement of time. Taking my lead from the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, I introduce the concept of egalitarian temporality produced by never ending competition between different individuals and groups. The villagers are themselves responsible for creat…
Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society
Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007, enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean phenomenon. During our last fieldwork period, between December 2010 and December 2011, no mobile phone network existed among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. However, their expectations were high and some individuals had already purchased mobile pho…
The Poetics of the Flute: Fading Imagery in a Sepik Society
Male initiation rituals used to be of central importance for the Sepik River societies of Papua New Guinea. Among the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari they were characterized by two idiosyncratic song-dances: one associated with the spirit-crocodiles and the other with the bamboo flutes. Hence, the songs of the flute and crocodile were the most secret songs known only to a small number of 'big men'. Since the Catholic charismatic movement entered the …
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Over the past decade, under the influence of the Catholic charismatic movement, the Ambonwari people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea have radically altered their relationships with bush spirits and, simultaneously, their attitudes towards their landscape. During the current process of abolishing prohibitions pertaining to taboo places, the Ambonwari have also abolished a set of cultural activities that were characteristic of ancestral …
Anthropology, Technology, and the Neo-Liberal Market
Avtor podaja podobo sveta, v katerem je kvaliteta življenja urbanega človeka pod vedno večjim pritiskom tehnologije, tržnega gospodarstva in neoliberane filozofije. Tudi tisti, ki urejajo in vodijo financiranje humanističnih in družboslovnih ved, raje sledijo ekonomskim in političnim zahtevam, namesto da bi dali prednost intelektualnim in vsebinskim razsežnostim. Ob tem mnogi socialni in kulturni antropologi spreminjajo svojo podobo, da bi zadovo…
The Poetics of the Crocodile: Changing Cultural Perspectives in Ambonwari
Ambonwari people from the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, had a rich repertoire of song‐dances, each of which was associated with specific events and the birth of something new. Together they represented the entire human life cycle as well as the cosmology at large. Visual, verbal and tactile modalities of singing and dancing were tightly interwoven; images and symbols were enacted by the dancers, in their decoration, arrangement, movement…
The People of the Lower Arafundi: Tropical Foragers of the New Guinea Rainforest
Ethnographic work in the Sepik Basin of New Guinea has been heavily biased toward the region's more dense and culturally elaborated communities. This article uses archival documentation and the results of rapid ethnographic surveys to reconstruct the contactera ethnography of one of its lesser-known groups, the Lower Arafundi. The Lower Arafundi people were ethnographically significant as foragers of the tropical rainforest, as progenitors of a r…
Temporality of Post‐mortem Divination and Divination of Post‐mortem Temporality 1
When an Ambonwari person dies divination may be used to consult spirits as to the cause of death. Listening to the tapping of a bamboo pole—where the rhythm reflects totemic signals usually beaten on a slit‐drum—a diviner examines the links between people's wrong doings and other past deeds and events. The aim of post‐mortem divination is to reconstitute and rearrange the relationships between village clans, between clans and their land, between …
Temporality of Post-mortem Divination and Divination of Post-mortem Temporality
When an Ambonwari person dies divination may be used to consult spirits as to the cause of death. Listening to the tapping of a bamboo pole—where the rhythm reflects totemic signals usually beaten on a slit-drum—a diviner examines the links between people's wrong doings and other past deeds and events. The aim of post-mortem divination is to reconstitute and rearrange the relationships between village clans, between clans and their land, between …
Dancing through time: A Sepik cosmology
Being and ‘Non‐Being’ in Ambonwari (Papua New Guinea) Ritual
By focusing on children involved in the ritual practices in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, this essay compares two types of ritual: that of healing and that of male initiation. Like other life crisis rituals both deal with two dimensions of the Ambonwari life‐world, that is with the living and the dead and, in a broader sense, with people and spirits. Though both are based upon the same cosmology there are fundamental d…
Mutual Understanding: Participant observation and the transmission of information in Ambonwari
A partir de l'experience controversee de l'ethnologue australien Roger Keesing dans les Iles Salomon et en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee, ainsi que de la propre experience de terrain de l'A. en Papouasie (population Ambonwari de la region Sepik), cet article propose une reflexion sur le role des informateurs principaux lors de la recherche sur le terrain. La relation privilegiee entre l'ethnologue et ses quelques informateurs est particuliere en soi …
Cosmos and Society in Oceania
Contents: D. de Coppet and A. Iteanu, Introduction: - D. de Coppet, Shared Authority: The Notion of Big Man in the Solomon Islands - A. Gell, Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual - G. Lewis, Revealed by Illness: The Gnau People's World and Some of its Risks - E. Hirsch, The 'Holding Together' of Ritual: Ancestrality and Achievement in the Papuan Highlands - A. Iteanu, Ritual and Ancestors: On the Identity of Sup…
Firemaking And Stone-Mortar Use On The Upper Yuat, Papua New Guinea
Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society
Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007, enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean phenomenon. During our last fieldwork period, between December 2010 and December 2011, no mobile phone network existed among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. However, their expectations were high and some individuals had already purchased mobile pho…
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Over the past decade, under the influence of the Catholic charismatic movement, the Ambonwari people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea have radically altered their relationships with bush spirits and, simultaneously, their attitudes towards their landscape. During the current process of abolishing prohibitions pertaining to taboo places, the Ambonwari have also abolished a set of cultural activities that were characteristic of ancestral …
Cosmos and Society in Oceania
Contents: D. de Coppet and A. Iteanu, Introduction: - D. de Coppet, Shared Authority: The Notion of Big Man in the Solomon Islands - A. Gell, Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual - G. Lewis, Revealed by Illness: The Gnau People's World and Some of its Risks - E. Hirsch, The 'Holding Together' of Ritual: Ancestrality and Achievement in the Papuan Highlands - A. Iteanu, Ritual and Ancestors: On the Identity of Sup…
Seeing and holding time: Karawari perceptions of temporalities, calendars and clocks
Clock-time differentiates and systematises in a way rarely endorsed by small-scale societies, where the tendency is to reject hierarchy based on the measurement of time. Taking my lead from the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, I introduce the concept of egalitarian temporality produced by never ending competition between different individuals and groups. The villagers are themselves responsible for creat…
The People of the Lower Arafundi: Tropical Foragers of the New Guinea Rainforest
Ethnographic work in the Sepik Basin of New Guinea has been heavily biased toward the region's more dense and culturally elaborated communities. This article uses archival documentation and the results of rapid ethnographic surveys to reconstruct the contactera ethnography of one of its lesser-known groups, the Lower Arafundi. The Lower Arafundi people were ethnographically significant as foragers of the tropical rainforest, as progenitors of a r…
The Poetics of the Flute: Fading Imagery in a Sepik Society
Male initiation rituals used to be of central importance for the Sepik River societies of Papua New Guinea. Among the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari they were characterized by two idiosyncratic song-dances: one associated with the spirit-crocodiles and the other with the bamboo flutes. Hence, the songs of the flute and crocodile were the most secret songs known only to a small number of 'big men'. Since the Catholic charismatic movement entered the …
Mutual Understanding: Participant observation and the transmission of information in Ambonwari
A partir de l'experience controversee de l'ethnologue australien Roger Keesing dans les Iles Salomon et en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee, ainsi que de la propre experience de terrain de l'A. en Papouasie (population Ambonwari de la region Sepik), cet article propose une reflexion sur le role des informateurs principaux lors de la recherche sur le terrain. La relation privilegiee entre l'ethnologue et ses quelques informateurs est particuliere en soi …
Firemaking And Stone-Mortar Use On The Upper Yuat, Papua New Guinea
Being and ‘Non‐Being’ in Ambonwari (Papua New Guinea) Ritual
By focusing on children involved in the ritual practices in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, this essay compares two types of ritual: that of healing and that of male initiation. Like other life crisis rituals both deal with two dimensions of the Ambonwari life‐world, that is with the living and the dead and, in a broader sense, with people and spirits. Though both are based upon the same cosmology there are fundamental d…
Mutual Understanding: Participant observation and the transmission of information in Ambonwari
A partir de l'experience controversee de l'ethnologue australien Roger Keesing dans les Iles Salomon et en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee, ainsi que de la propre experience de terrain de l'A. en Papouasie (population Ambonwari de la region Sepik), cet article propose une reflexion sur le role des informateurs principaux lors de la recherche sur le terrain. La relation privilegiee entre l'ethnologue et ses quelques informateurs est particuliere en soi …
Cosmos and Society in Oceania
Contents: D. de Coppet and A. Iteanu, Introduction: - D. de Coppet, Shared Authority: The Notion of Big Man in the Solomon Islands - A. Gell, Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual - G. Lewis, Revealed by Illness: The Gnau People's World and Some of its Risks - E. Hirsch, The 'Holding Together' of Ritual: Ancestrality and Achievement in the Papuan Highlands - A. Iteanu, Ritual and Ancestors: On the Identity of Sup…
Dancing through time: A Sepik cosmology
Temporality of Post‐mortem Divination and Divination of Post‐mortem Temporality 1
When an Ambonwari person dies divination may be used to consult spirits as to the cause of death. Listening to the tapping of a bamboo pole—where the rhythm reflects totemic signals usually beaten on a slit‐drum—a diviner examines the links between people's wrong doings and other past deeds and events. The aim of post‐mortem divination is to reconstitute and rearrange the relationships between village clans, between clans and their land, between …
Temporality of Post-mortem Divination and Divination of Post-mortem Temporality
When an Ambonwari person dies divination may be used to consult spirits as to the cause of death. Listening to the tapping of a bamboo pole—where the rhythm reflects totemic signals usually beaten on a slit-drum—a diviner examines the links between people's wrong doings and other past deeds and events. The aim of post-mortem divination is to reconstitute and rearrange the relationships between village clans, between clans and their land, between …
The People of the Lower Arafundi: Tropical Foragers of the New Guinea Rainforest
Ethnographic work in the Sepik Basin of New Guinea has been heavily biased toward the region's more dense and culturally elaborated communities. This article uses archival documentation and the results of rapid ethnographic surveys to reconstruct the contactera ethnography of one of its lesser-known groups, the Lower Arafundi. The Lower Arafundi people were ethnographically significant as foragers of the tropical rainforest, as progenitors of a r…
The Poetics of the Crocodile: Changing Cultural Perspectives in Ambonwari
Ambonwari people from the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, had a rich repertoire of song‐dances, each of which was associated with specific events and the birth of something new. Together they represented the entire human life cycle as well as the cosmology at large. Visual, verbal and tactile modalities of singing and dancing were tightly interwoven; images and symbols were enacted by the dancers, in their decoration, arrangement, movement…
Anthropology, Technology, and the Neo-Liberal Market
Avtor podaja podobo sveta, v katerem je kvaliteta življenja urbanega človeka pod vedno večjim pritiskom tehnologije, tržnega gospodarstva in neoliberane filozofije. Tudi tisti, ki urejajo in vodijo financiranje humanističnih in družboslovnih ved, raje sledijo ekonomskim in političnim zahtevam, namesto da bi dali prednost intelektualnim in vsebinskim razsežnostim. Ob tem mnogi socialni in kulturni antropologi spreminjajo svojo podobo, da bi zadovo…
Places and Spirits in a Sepik Society
Over the past decade, under the influence of the Catholic charismatic movement, the Ambonwari people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea have radically altered their relationships with bush spirits and, simultaneously, their attitudes towards their landscape. During the current process of abolishing prohibitions pertaining to taboo places, the Ambonwari have also abolished a set of cultural activities that were characteristic of ancestral …
Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society
Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007, enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean phenomenon. During our last fieldwork period, between December 2010 and December 2011, no mobile phone network existed among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. However, their expectations were high and some individuals had already purchased mobile pho…
The Poetics of the Flute: Fading Imagery in a Sepik Society
Male initiation rituals used to be of central importance for the Sepik River societies of Papua New Guinea. Among the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari they were characterized by two idiosyncratic song-dances: one associated with the spirit-crocodiles and the other with the bamboo flutes. Hence, the songs of the flute and crocodile were the most secret songs known only to a small number of 'big men'. Since the Catholic charismatic movement entered the …
Foreword from the Editors
et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
Seeing and holding time: Karawari perceptions of temporalities, calendars and clocks
Clock-time differentiates and systematises in a way rarely endorsed by small-scale societies, where the tendency is to reject hierarchy based on the measurement of time. Taking my lead from the Karawari-speaking Ambonwari of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, I introduce the concept of egalitarian temporality produced by never ending competition between different individuals and groups. The villagers are themselves responsible for creat…
Karawari carved crocodiles: From spirit-beings to museum artefacts
The Karawari River region of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, is renowned for its lengthy, carved wooden crocodiles. These spirit-beings were kept in men’s houses and had an important role in headhunting and war expeditions, initiation rituals, hunting trips, and during periods of epidemics. Karawari people acted upon the world with and through them. They were also sought by art collectors and found their way into museums around the world. …
Yabar: The Alienations of Murik Men in Papua New Guinea Modernity, by David Lipset
One could say that this book deals with the particular social, cultural, economic and environmental changes in a coastal region of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), but it also makes sig
Sensing the Acoustics of a New Guinea Rainforest
It was Edward Schieffelin who initiated very productive anthropological research among the Kaluli of Bosavi in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) between 1966 and 1968. In th
Gillian Gillison, She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women. A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Over many decades, Gillian Gillison has immersed herself with almost obsessive devotion in the myths and rites of the Gimi, which she recorded during extended fieldwork visits between 1973 and 1985. The present book is in many ways an in-depth continuation and clarification of their mythic life-world that Gillison explored in her earlier book Between Culture and Fantasy. A New Guinea Highlands Mythology. In this part of Papua New Guinea’s Eastern…
Kunaypa historicity: Conceptual specificity of temporal reciprocity in the Sepik, Papua New Guinea
If we accept that anthropology of history transforms history into a subject of investigation rather than just a form of knowledge and social practice, then the ethnography of history must delve into local ways of thinking, living, and acting. The language of the people is key to gaining insight into the relational and temporal modes of existence of society. Among the Karawari people of Papua New Guinea, these modes play an important role in vario…
Translating the field
Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey of translation—as do their interlocutors. Translation—of words, tone of voice, gestures, facial expressi…
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