Imacoqwa's Arrow : On the Biunity of the Sun and Moon in a Papuan Life-world

Mimica, Jadran

ISBN 10: 1912808749 / ISBN 13: 9781912808748

Published by HAU, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Imacoqwa's Arrow : On the Biunity of the Sun and Moon in a Papuan Life-world
• Publisher: HAU
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912808749
• ISBN 13: 9781912808748
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts.

In Imacoqwa’s Arrow, Jadran Mimica draws on decades of field research to bring us a rich ethnographic account of myth and meaning in the lifeworlds of the Yagwoia of Papua New Guinea. He focuses especially on the relations of the sun and the moon in Yagwoia understandings of the universe and their own place within it. This is classic terrain in Melanesian ethnography, but Mimica does much more than add to the archive of anthropological accounts of the significance of the sun and the moon for peoples of this part of the world. With extraordinary rigor and reflexivity, he grounds his understanding of Yagwoia concepts in psychoanalytic and phenomenological methods that afford a radically new and revealing translation of these seminal themes in Melanesian mythology and its poetics. This is a major contribution to the hermeneutics of ethnographic translation and theorization.

About the Author

Jadran Mimica is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems and of many contributions to psychoanalytic anthropology and Melanesian ethnography.