| Titre | L'univers dans un hameau. Cosmologie et histoire chez les Yafar (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée) | |
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| Auteur | Bernard Juillerat | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 127-128, 1992 La terre et le Pacifique | |
| Page | 159-176 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Universe as a Hamlet. Yafar Cosmology and History (Papua New Guinea)
For the Yafar in western Sepik, the land is both a subject of cosmological speculation and a social, political, historical and economic reality. How do these two dimensions - in principle, independent of each other - sometimes overlap ? Yafar society integrates the cosmological structure into the hamlet's sociopolitical configuration. It also inserts phantasms from the cosmology into a millenarianism. Independence in 1975, the 1981 cargo cult (death vs. abundance), and splits in Yafar society following internal conflict are new events imposed by history but thought out through cosmology. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1992_num_127_1_3385 |
