Stone-Faced Ancestors
The Spatial Anchoring of Myth in Wamira, Papua New Guinea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2736229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Kahn (0000-0003-1608-7772, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1828 • E-ISSN: 2160-3510 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3773481 |
| OpenAlex | W226458645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 13 |
A village of about 450 inhabitants, Wamira lies on the northeast coast of Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea.1 Immediately behind the hamlets, which are scattered under trees along a stony beach, a grassy plain extends to the base of the mountains that begin their ascent a few kilometers inland. About two kilometers to the west of Wamira, perched on top of a lofty plateau, is Dogura, the headquarters of the Anglican Mission in Papua New Guinea
Archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Mythology · New guinea · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classics · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Signs of Life
What's in a Coin? Reading the Material Culture of Legend Tripping and Other Activities
Rita(hhh)
Introduction - An Amphibious Anthropology
Embodied Space(s)
Mythical Infrastructuring
Myth
The intentional variability of Lapita pottery fabrics
Rock climbing as lithic ethnography
The paradox of landscape
Tea and Tinned Fish
Land and Sea Tenure at Erub, Torres Strait
Daily, Immediate Conflicts
It's up to the clan to protect”
Lining the Path
The End of the Beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir
Big Men
Placing the Past and Moving the Present
Tourism Representations of Chinese Cosmology
Fugitive Monuments and Animal Pathways
Non‐portable stone artefacts and contexts of meaning
Concealment, revelation and cosmological dualism. Visibility, materiality and the spiritscape of the Torres Islands, Vanuatu
The Archaeology of Forgetting, the Dorset, and Arctic Antiquity
Stone use and avoidance on Easter Island
Building culturally meaningful chronologies
Stones in Motion
Coming Out of the Stone
Empowering Place
Excavating and interpreting ancestral action
What lies beneath
Claiming Space for an Engaged Anthropology
Conceiving relatedness
Putting Belonging into Place
Places Of Transformation
Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon
Romancing the stones
Of Winds, Worms and Mana
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The fame of Gawa
Magicians of Manumanua
Lineal and Nonlineal Codifications of Reality
The Melanesians of British New Guinea
Fighting with Food. Leadership, Values and Social Control In a Massim Society
The Fame of Gawa
Always Hungry, Never Greedy
History and Self-Conception in Ponam Society
Nuer Time-Reckoning
Indigenous ideas of order, time, and transition in a New Guinea cargo movement1
Moving Houses
Myth, Memory, and the Oral Tradition
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,03 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |