Between culture and fantasy: a New Guinea highlands mythology
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A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
GILLIAN GILLISON
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
CHICAGO AND LONDON
CONTENTS
Photographs ix
Figures xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Note on Orthography xxi
Introduction
1 The Argument among Myths 3
2 The Gimi of Highland New Guinea 2 5
Part One: Cannibalism and the Rites of Death
3 Gimi Cannibalism in History and in Myth 6 5
4 The Death of a Man in His Prime 105
5 The Death of a Man, Part II: Women Convert
the Man to Decorations 1 3 5
Part Two: Women s Work and the World They Hide
6 Songs Hold the Spirit: Garden Magic, Blood Songs,
and the Nature of Women s Work 15 5
7 Theories of Conception: Alternative Outcomes
in an Intrautcrine Scenario 199
8 Rituals of Childhood Death and Birth: Men s First
Exchanges Outside the Mother 223
Part Three: Marriage and Male Initiation
9 The Myth of the Flutes and Principles of Exchange 251
Contents
Part Four: The World of Sorcery
10 Only Men Understand Sorcery 297
11 The Rites of Cure 3 17
Conclusion
12 Myth as Ultimate Reality 3+5
Appendix: Kinship Terminology 357
Glossary of Gimi Terms 363
Bibliography 369
Index 385
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PHOTOGRAPHS
A group of women in Ubagubi 2
The edge of a traditional compound in Ubagubi 2 7
A battle scene from a performance of ritual theater 7 3
A group of ababana (paternal kinsmen) arrive from another
village after the death of one of their daughters 80
Men of the dead woman s father s clan wear the mud of mourning
as a badge of rage and sorrow 8 o
One of the dead woman s mothers confronts her husband s
brother 81
Performance of ritual theater depicting the retrieval
of a Big Man s skull 98-99
Performance of ritual theater depicting the hunting exploits
of the giant penis 113
A ritual expert holds two live marsupials 124
Elders interrogate a marsupial inside a cage 124
Ritual experts inspect leaf packets tied to marsupials limbs
before cooking 12 5
The aftermath ofadeath 129
The distribution of a head payment to a woman mourner
at the conclusion ofruhu (rites of death) 1 3 3
After the death of a young married man, the women of his
father s clan cover their faces with a black mixture called
nini and cut each other s hair 13 6
The widow crouches with her son peering over her shoulder 13 6
The dead man s mother with his eldest son 1 3 7
The immediate family of a man who died in his prime 137
Women eat behe-da (ferns) as one of the requirements of mourning 140
During niniusina (a death ritual) a senior woman removes a speck
of blackening from the forehead of each mourner 141
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After the token removal ofnini, men place a banana leaf plate
before each mourning woman and fill it with luxury foods 141
A Gimi woman alone in her garden 157
A pregnant woman rubs ashes over the back of her young pig
and recites a spell to induce growth 17 3
After preparing a bowl of oily red pandanus fruit, a man invites
his sons to lick his fingers 225
The father of a sick baby girl administers a cure 229
Waiting for the rakukusa (medicine) to cook 237
One of the anatu (purchasers of the bride) carries a stick
ofkabibisaham 256
The bride walks at the center of the wedding procession 257
The groom s mother s brother takes the bride by the hand that
holds up a charred pig s heart impaled on a stick 257
After nearly a week in seclusion, exhausted male initiates emerge
from the men s house on the shoulders of their mothers
brothers 278
The head of each initiate is purchased by his father 278
During a sorcery meeting, otfobirikaina, the traditional enemies
of the victim answer charges and make countercharges 299
During a sorcery meeting, one of the invited enemy Big Men holds
out a piece of cooked pig fat for the men of his clan to touch 323
FIGURES
i Map of Papua New Guinea xii
2, 2fl In the days of war, Big Men sponsored their affines as
refugees, converted them to younger brothers, and
initiated their sons 33, 35
3 Rules ofatiaoina 41
4 amau: reciprocal term used between sisters-in-law 46
4» Naming at betrothal for firstborn children 47
5 Relations among sisters-in-law 47
6 Principal terms of reference for a female ego 5 o
6a Principal terms of reference for a male ego 51
7 Marriages described by informants as the ideal 60
8 The Fern and the Snake (1985), a drawing made and
described by Robese, a young Gimi man 6 8
9 The Story of Cannibalism (1985), a drawing by Robese 7 8
10 Human features of the sweet potato 169
11 a-daoina: a woman s nurtured objects are the same
as her menstrual blood 194
12 A neki maha or mad ground 227
13 Botukofe s difficult labor 233
14 Incised decorations on a flute 2 71
1 s The head of a male is purchased twice, giving him a
second lease on life at his daughter s expense 289
16 Marriage and the movement of flutes 289
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