Roger Ivar Lohmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 93116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Ivar Lohmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger Ivar |
| FAMILY NAME | Lohmann |
| SIGNATURE | LOHMANN R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6495-7985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Spirit Colonists in New Guinea Minds
Just as people require territory to live and to develop traditions, spirit beings require human minds that can represent them as real in order to exist and develop distinctive characteristics. Both human beings and spirit beings tend to gather in mutual support groups, bound by cultural compatibilities to secure their needs. Like human societies, culturally different spirit groups can come into conflict over the same resources. In central New Gui…
Out-of-body on the happy hunting road
This chapter traces new directions for understanding how dreams and culture constitute one another in dialogues of multiple sorts. By connecting ethnographically accessible dream dialogues with recent discoveries in sleep research and biological anthropology. The chapter addresses the volume's theme of the evolution and nature of dream mentation. Dialogues are mutually reactive exchanges of information in which participants are foils for one anot…
Lipset, David: Yabar. The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity
Anthropos , Seite 747 - 749
Fiction in Fact: Ernest Callenbach'sEcotopiaand the Creation of a Green Culture with Anthropological Ingredients
Ecotopia is a quasi-ethnographic novel influenced by anthropology. Some of its fictional practices have been adopted in the actual world since publication in 1975. Set two decades after Green secessionists achieve national independence for the U.S. Northwest, an American journalist-fieldworker describes Ecotopians' strange new ecological customs. Author Callenbach constructively criticized and inflenced his unsustainable culture by comparing it t…
Morals and Missionary Positionality: Diyos of Duranmin 1
This chapter explores a distinctive moral conundrum facing missionaries, that of representing God's will without conflating it with one's own, by listening in on an indigenous Papua New Guinean missionary's retrospective on his career. Diyos Wapnok worked for many years among the Asabano and founded a bible college at Duranmin, Sandaun Province. A member of the first cohort of Telefolmin people to receive a mission education, Diyos responded to a…
Sleeping among the Asabano
Sleeping among the Asabano: Surprises in Intimacy and Sociality at the Margins of Consciousness
The paired discomfort and exhilaration that ethnographers experience while immersed in foreign life-worlds throw into stark relief personal and cultural foibles, expectations, and limitations on both sides of the cross-cultural encounter. The more intimate the engagement the stronger the revelations it engenders. Sleeping together is among the most intimate of ethnographic exchanges. Taken with the facts that sleep is a form of social agency, and…
Sleep, Dreaming, and the Imagination: Psychosocial Adaptations to an Ever-Changing World
Combining psychological and anthropological work indicates that sleep, dreaming, and the imagination are involved in regulating mood and updating individual and collective knowledge. Psychologists often implicitly assume that all dreamers share their naturalistic model of dreaming while ethnographers often emphasize the spiritual explanations of dreaming inherent in the worldviews of their hosts. Applying cognitive and evolutionary theories of re…
How Evaluating Dreams Makes History: Asabano Examples
Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea, dreams deemed true have motivated hunting expeditions, medical treatments, and religious conversion. In contrast, dreams deemed false have negligibly affected behaviour. The Asabano draw on multiple and changing opinions and theories of dreams and dreaming when assessing whether or not particular dreams accurately represented reality. Dreams conforming to several dream scenario genres routinely receive atten…
In the Company of Things Left Behind: Asabano Mementos
The Asabano of Papua New Guinea treat mementos of deceased companions in several ways. Retention, destruction, and decay through exposure are analysed here in terms of motivational agency. The particular strategy adopted by survivors depends on pragmatic and sentimental value, current emotional state, and desired memory of the relationship. Curation corresponds with the desire to retain a cherished memory, while destruction correlates with expung…
Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations
This introduction provides an overview of the contributions to this special issue on the anthropology of creations, and identifies some central concerns and definitions. Juxtaposing emic and etic perspectives, I derive several principles to guide the study of creations. Culture consists of creations, which are products of minds, and exist in three media: thoughts, behaviours and artefacts. Only by being expressed as bodily movement or material cu…
Introduction: Biographies of Anthropologists as Anthropological Data
Biographies of anthropologists are widely recognized as useful for the history of science and the discipline. Introducing this special issue “Biographies of Anthropologists,” I argue that they not only provide information about anthropology, but also data for anthropology because they are studies of human agents enmeshed in social and cultural contexts, comparable to life histories of ethnographic informants. Biographies of anthropologists are of…
Souvenirs des morts: Techniques de gestion de la mémoire dans un village de Nouvelle-Guinée
Les Asabano de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée traitent de diverses façons les objets considérés comme des « mémentos » de leurs compagnons décédés. Plusieurs cas sont abordés ici, notamment la conservation à long terme de ces objets, leur destruction immédiate et leur abandon à la désintégration. Le choix de la stratégie qui va être suivie par les survivants est influencé par divers facteurs, parmi lesquels la valeur pragmatique et sentimentale accord…
Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion. Edited by Stephen D. Glazier and Charles A. Flowerday. Westport, Praeger, 2003. 304 pp. ISBN 0313300909. $72.95 (cloth
Sound of a woman: Drums, Gender, and Myth Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea
Prior to their conversion to Christianity, Asabano boys and women were forbidden to play drums, lest they become aroused and promiscuous. The origin myth of the drum, revealed during male initiations, identifies its sound as that which emanates from a woman's vagina during sex. Therefore, to play the drum is to have sex on a mythological-symbolic level. Boys married only after hearing this myth and drumming in an all-night public celebration. Ini…
Introduction: Objects, Gender, and Religion
The practice of assigning gender to artefacts and natural objects is common but not universal in religions. Treating objects, substances, and places as gendered is a form of anthropomorphism that both expresses and furthers gender ideals and power relationships among people based on gender distinctions. The degree to which sacred objects are gendered varies, reflecting how important gender is in particular religious worldviews
Moral Conflict and Cultural Change
Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in. Papua New Guinea Society By Joel Robbins. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004
Moral Conflict and Cultural Change: Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society
The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea
remains differently depending on the type of relationship survivors planned to have with the deceased. Traditional methods included corpse exposure with curation or disposal of bones, disposal of corpses in rivers, and cannibalism. Following their conversion to Christianity, Asabano burned or buried their bone relics and commenced coffin inhumation in cemeteries. These practices left distinctive memories and physical records that served as means …
Sex and Sensibility: Margaret Mead's Descriptive and Rhetorical Ethnography
ROGER IVAR LOHMANN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Trent University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. A Melanesianist, his interests include cultural change, religion, and dreaming. He is the editor of Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and "Perspectives on the Category 'Supernatural,'" a special issue of Anthropological Forum, 13(2), 2003
Society for the Anthropology of Religion: Debating the Category “Supernatural
Supernatural Encounters of the Asabano in Two Traditions and Three States of Consciousness
Dreams and the supernatural are perhaps the two cultural realms most infused with imagination. The Asabano of Papua New Guinea's Sandaun Province share with one another numerous accounts of supernatural experiences that occur not only in dreams, but also in trance and alert awareness. I collected many of these during fieldwork among them in 1994–95. Nearly twenty years earlier they had abandoned their traditional religion and adopted Baptist Chri…
Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific
The supernatural is everywhere: Defining qualities of religion in Melanesia and beyond
This article does not have an abstract
Introduction: Naming the ineffable
This article does not have an abstract
Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific
The supernatural is everywhere: Defining qualities of religion in Melanesia and beyond
This article does not have an abstract
How Evaluating Dreams Makes History: Asabano Examples
Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea, dreams deemed true have motivated hunting expeditions, medical treatments, and religious conversion. In contrast, dreams deemed false have negligibly affected behaviour. The Asabano draw on multiple and changing opinions and theories of dreams and dreaming when assessing whether or not particular dreams accurately represented reality. Dreams conforming to several dream scenario genres routinely receive atten…
Introduced Writing and Christianity: Differential Access to Religious Knowledge among the Asabano
Among the precontact Asabano of Duranmin, Papua New Guinea, older men kept secret myths revealed during initiations. Their religious knowledge gave them moral authority and privilege as enculturators. Since mass conversion to Christianity, the Bible is the new source of religious knowledge, and those able to read the Bible tell elders the myths written inside. Older men no longer function as experts of religious knowledge, which is now stored in …
The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea
remains differently depending on the type of relationship survivors planned to have with the deceased. Traditional methods included corpse exposure with curation or disposal of bones, disposal of corpses in rivers, and cannibalism. Following their conversion to Christianity, Asabano burned or buried their bone relics and commenced coffin inhumation in cemeteries. These practices left distinctive memories and physical records that served as means …
Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations
This introduction provides an overview of the contributions to this special issue on the anthropology of creations, and identifies some central concerns and definitions. Juxtaposing emic and etic perspectives, I derive several principles to guide the study of creations. Culture consists of creations, which are products of minds, and exist in three media: thoughts, behaviours and artefacts. Only by being expressed as bodily movement or material cu…
Sex and Sensibility: Margaret Mead's Descriptive and Rhetorical Ethnography
ROGER IVAR LOHMANN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Trent University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. A Melanesianist, his interests include cultural change, religion, and dreaming. He is the editor of Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and "Perspectives on the Category 'Supernatural,'" a special issue of Anthropological Forum, 13(2), 2003
Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England . T. M. LUHRMANN
Sleep, Dreaming, and the Imagination: Psychosocial Adaptations to an Ever-Changing World
Combining psychological and anthropological work indicates that sleep, dreaming, and the imagination are involved in regulating mood and updating individual and collective knowledge. Psychologists often implicitly assume that all dreamers share their naturalistic model of dreaming while ethnographers often emphasize the spiritual explanations of dreaming inherent in the worldviews of their hosts. Applying cognitive and evolutionary theories of re…
In the Company of Things Left Behind: Asabano Mementos
The Asabano of Papua New Guinea treat mementos of deceased companions in several ways. Retention, destruction, and decay through exposure are analysed here in terms of motivational agency. The particular strategy adopted by survivors depends on pragmatic and sentimental value, current emotional state, and desired memory of the relationship. Curation corresponds with the desire to retain a cherished memory, while destruction correlates with expung…
Introduction: Biographies of Anthropologists as Anthropological Data
Biographies of anthropologists are widely recognized as useful for the history of science and the discipline. Introducing this special issue “Biographies of Anthropologists,” I argue that they not only provide information about anthropology, but also data for anthropology because they are studies of human agents enmeshed in social and cultural contexts, comparable to life histories of ethnographic informants. Biographies of anthropologists are of…
Souvenirs des morts: Techniques de gestion de la mémoire dans un village de Nouvelle-Guinée
Les Asabano de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée traitent de diverses façons les objets considérés comme des « mémentos » de leurs compagnons décédés. Plusieurs cas sont abordés ici, notamment la conservation à long terme de ces objets, leur destruction immédiate et leur abandon à la désintégration. Le choix de la stratégie qui va être suivie par les survivants est influencé par divers facteurs, parmi lesquels la valeur pragmatique et sentimentale accord…
Sound of a woman: Drums, Gender, and Myth Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea
Prior to their conversion to Christianity, Asabano boys and women were forbidden to play drums, lest they become aroused and promiscuous. The origin myth of the drum, revealed during male initiations, identifies its sound as that which emanates from a woman's vagina during sex. Therefore, to play the drum is to have sex on a mythological-symbolic level. Boys married only after hearing this myth and drumming in an all-night public celebration. Ini…
Fiction in Fact: Ernest Callenbach'sEcotopiaand the Creation of a Green Culture with Anthropological Ingredients
Ecotopia is a quasi-ethnographic novel influenced by anthropology. Some of its fictional practices have been adopted in the actual world since publication in 1975. Set two decades after Green secessionists achieve national independence for the U.S. Northwest, an American journalist-fieldworker describes Ecotopians' strange new ecological customs. Author Callenbach constructively criticized and inflenced his unsustainable culture by comparing it t…
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Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England . T. M. LUHRMANN
Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions . G. W. Trompf
The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea
Dreams play an important and often underestimated role in cultural transmission because they provide personal experiential verification of incoming information. Dreams facilitated the reception of religious beliefs among the Asabano before, during, and after their conversion to Christianity. Asabano hold the "classic" view that dreams are real experiences of the soul. Therefore, dream encounters with supernaturals provide evidence for such beings…
The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea
In the early morning in Yakob village, all is fresh and renewed from the rains that fall almost every night. The sun beams warmly upon the drenched land, and the Fu River can be heard rushing far below. The rain forest-covered mountains begin to poke through the mists that envelop them, while smoke from morning fires sifts through the leaf thatching of houses. Gentle murmurs grow into conversations, babies cry, and sleepy dogs occasionally yelp, …
Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea
Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and place - an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowle…
Introduced Writing and Christianity: Differential Access to Religious Knowledge among the Asabano
Among the precontact Asabano of Duranmin, Papua New Guinea, older men kept secret myths revealed during initiations. Their religious knowledge gave them moral authority and privilege as enculturators. Since mass conversion to Christianity, the Bible is the new source of religious knowledge, and those able to read the Bible tell elders the myths written inside. Older men no longer function as experts of religious knowledge, which is now stored in …
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea . Pamela J. Stewart , Andrew Strathern
Supernatural Encounters of the Asabano in Two Traditions and Three States of Consciousness
Dreams and the supernatural are perhaps the two cultural realms most infused with imagination. The Asabano of Papua New Guinea's Sandaun Province share with one another numerous accounts of supernatural experiences that occur not only in dreams, but also in trance and alert awareness. I collected many of these during fieldwork among them in 1994–95. Nearly twenty years earlier they had abandoned their traditional religion and adopted Baptist Chri…
Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific
The supernatural is everywhere: Defining qualities of religion in Melanesia and beyond
This article does not have an abstract
Introduction: Naming the ineffable
This article does not have an abstract
Sex and Sensibility: Margaret Mead's Descriptive and Rhetorical Ethnography
ROGER IVAR LOHMANN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Trent University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. A Melanesianist, his interests include cultural change, religion, and dreaming. He is the editor of Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and "Perspectives on the Category 'Supernatural,'" a special issue of Anthropological Forum, 13(2), 2003
Society for the Anthropology of Religion: Debating the Category “Supernatural
The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea
remains differently depending on the type of relationship survivors planned to have with the deceased. Traditional methods included corpse exposure with curation or disposal of bones, disposal of corpses in rivers, and cannibalism. Following their conversion to Christianity, Asabano burned or buried their bone relics and commenced coffin inhumation in cemeteries. These practices left distinctive memories and physical records that served as means …
Moral Conflict and Cultural Change
Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in. Papua New Guinea Society By Joel Robbins. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004
Moral Conflict and Cultural Change: Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society
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