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The Muyuw Lo'un and the end of marriage
Death rituals and life in the societies of the Kula Ring • Dekalb, Ill. • Published In 1989 • Pages: 73-94, 275-280
By: Damon, Frederick H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay is a functional analysis of the Muyuw mortuary ceremony known as [n]lo'un[/n] that takes place months or even years after a burial. Also described is the inter-relationship of the [n]lo'un[/n] with two other Muyuw mortuary rituals -- the [n]ungayay[/n] (the actual burial and wake), and the [n]anagin tavalam[/n], a rite that takes place two or three years after the [n]ungayay[/n]. The following discussion is on the general nature of marriage in the society and how it encompasses "the transformation of gender capacities through time." The [n]lo'un[/n], according to the author, is the end point of a set of transformations he has previously defined as constituting the basic structure of marriage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Gift giving
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- Kin relationships
- Basis of marriage
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Cosmology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Northeastern Massim
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1975, 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1973-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Muyuw Island, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Frederick H. Damon
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89008611
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Funeral rites and ceremonies/Massim (Papua New Guinea people)