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Gerrit J. van Enk, Lourens de Vries - The Korowai of Irian Jaya, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

The Korowai of Irian Jaya

Their Language in Its Cultural Context

Av Gerrit J. van Enk, Lourens de Vries

Del 9 i serien Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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Irian Jaya is the official name of the western half of New Guinea, a province of Indonesia since the 1960s. Its inhabitants are generally untouched by civilization, and most of their hundreds of native languages and cultures remain unstudied. Van Enk and de Vries gained access to one of the most isolated parts of Irian Jaya in order to study the Korowai, a tribe in southern Irian Jaya. The Korowai still use stone tools, live in tree-houses, and have no knowledge ofthe outside world. Van Enk and de Vries provide the first study of the Korowai language and culture. They reproduce oral texts that show patterns of grammar, discourse, and culture, and discuss thephonological, morphological, and syntactical aspects of the language. In the process, van Enk and de Vries reveal a number of key semantic fields and conceptual patterns such as kinship, counting, the role of lunar phases, and Korowai cosmology.
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Gerrit J. van Enk is a Minister of The Reformed Church of Enumatil (The Netherlands), and also teaches cultural anthropology at the missiological Institute of Reformed Theological Training in the Netherlands. Lourens de Vries is a Research Fellow of Leiden University in the Department of Languages and Cultures of South-East Asia and Oceania, and a professor of Bible translation at the Free University of Amsterdam.

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the book clearly and precisely presents new and fascinating ethnographic and linguistic data at the same time giving an example of how to describe grammatical structures within the ethnographic setting and doing without a forbiddig theoretical framework. Besides that, it is a practical introduction into linguistic anthropology and Papuan liguistics which cannot be restricted to grammar, but has to include semantics, lexicon, and the edition of texts. Volker Heeschen, Anthropos 94.1999

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