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Landscape and Memory in Papua New Guinea

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Amongst the Iatmul of the Sepik River, in the event of a conflict about the rightful possession of a name, the opponents and their supporters meet in the men’s house, in the center near the ceremonial stool, pabu, for the name debate. This is their most revered social form of intellectual discussion. For the Iatmul, the names are the centre of their ramified mythological system. Conflicts about land use, fishing rights, or rights to names are always about names or mythology.

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Wassmann, J. (2004). Landscape and Memory in Papua New Guinea. In: Gebhardt, H., Kiesel, H. (eds) Weltbilder. Heidelberger Jahrbücher, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18959-3_13

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