ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01556.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01557.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper considers the relationship between two component types or categories of myth from the Yirrkala region of north‐eastern Arnhem Land, which I define respectively as those of inheritance and creation. I argue that the existence of the two components of myth reflects conceptual problems associated with the transfer of power from the ancestral past to the present, in these clan‐based societies in which the structure of the clan system is believed to be ancestrally preordained, yet the creation of clans is part of a continuing political process. The paper places Yolngu totemism in the context of the politics of group relations, and focuses on the tension between autonomy and exchange which provides much of the underlying dynamic to Yolngu social organisation. The totemic/mythological system has the flexibility to enable ancestral precedence to apparently underlie group organisation despite the latter's inherently imminent and contextual nature. The structure of the mythological system, and the particular way in which it articulates with the politics of group organisation, enables the network of ancestral tracks associated with the myths of creation to be perpetuated in a way that makes them both distal and protected from the disorderly changes of the present, yet an integral part of the process of social reproduct

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01558.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01559.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Ian Hogbin's article, ‘Spirits and the Healing of the Sick in Ontong Java’ (1930), sketches out the relationships that were perceived to exist between the living and the spirits of the dead amongst the inhabitants of a small coral atoll in the Western Pacific. Episodes of illness constituted crises when this relationship was articulated through the institution of spirit mediumship, in order to effect a cure for the patient. The structure of Ontong Javanese seances is compared with spirit mediums' seances in Bali. The seances of both cultural groups are analysed in terms of a model of symbolic healing recently proposed by Dow (1986). Symbolic healing of the clients' specific problem is located within, and dependent upon, a more generalised process of therapy that affects all the participants in the seance. This therapy hinges on the nature of the emotional relationship between the living and the spirits they associate with their dead relati

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01560.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01561.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1990.tb01555.x

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY