SHOOTING THE SUN, RITUAL AND MEANING IN WEST SEPIK
Language: English
Published by Smithsonian Institute Press with, Ministere Des Affaires Etrangeres, Paris, 1992
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- Title
- SHOOTING THE SUN, RITUAL AND MEANING IN WEST SEPIK
- Author
- Juillerat, Bernard
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institute Press with, Ministere Des Affaires Etrangeres, Paris
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket w New Mylar Cover
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1560981687
- ISBN 13
- 9781560981688
- Edition
- First Printing
Shooting the Sun begins with Juillerat's description and analysis of the Yangis ritual. Drawing on a secret exegesis provided by Yafar experts, Juillerat interprets the Ida-Yangis rituals as a reformulation of the oedipal ontogenetic scenario, with shooting arrows toward the sun as the ritual's finale, representing a decisive separation from the mother's womb (the earth) and the appropriation of the mother's breast (the sun).
Five anthropologists and two psychoanalysts - including Andre Green, Francois Manenti, Marilyn Strathern, Richard Werbner, and Roy Wagner - comment on Juillerat's and Gell's analyses. Juillerat assesses the proposed theoretical concepts, reconsidering Yangis and the mythology that sustains it in light of this assessment and providing some recently uncovered ethnographic material. Shooting the Sun is significant both for the ethnographic data it contains and for the theoretical sophistication it displays.
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