Anthropos: Anthropos, 70.1975

Anthropos, 70.1975

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Title:: Anthropos

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Title:: Anthropos, 70.1975

Year of Publication:: 1975

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Title:: Bd. 70, 1975, Heft 5-6

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

A Kewa Religious Argot (New Guinea) Karl J. Franklin Contents: 1. The Religious Setting 2. Function of the Argot 3. Argot Terms 4. Alternative Spirit Names 5. Summary For the Kewa, a name implies a certain power 1 . This power is related to the response of a being (whether living person or disembodied spirit) when its n arne is spoken. The use of a name implies a relationship between the speaker a nd the being named, and it is important that the correct name, the one that lr nplies the appropriate relationship, be used in social intercourse. It is not uncommon to bring into play a new set of names on the occasion of establishing a new relationship between individuals, which means, in turn, that old names §° out of use. A common function of such vocabulary is to denote an exchange rela tionship. When a marriage contract is made between two families, gifts are e xchanged to cement the affinal relationships being established, and the rela tionships are sealed by the use of new names. After such a contract has been uiade, the use of an old name would cause embarrassment since it implies the former non-exchange relationship, and would undermine the newer one. 1 The Kewa language is spoken by over 40,000 people in the Southern Highlands district. Since 1958 my wife and I have worked intermittently in two main villages, ^tuli in the Eastern dialect and Usa of the Western dialect. The material in this paper deludes information from both areas, as well as the third main Southern dialect (see also f Ranklin 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1972 for related studies). All told over five years have keen spent in the villages of Muli and Usa under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. This research has been supported in part by a grant from the New Guinea branch of the Summer Institute of Linguistics Research Fund. I would like to thank William Merrifield, William Samarin, and Robert Litteral for helpful suggestions 031 this paper. Anthropos 70. 1975 K. J. K J1H1 46

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