Past is present - Present is past: Time and the harvest rituals on the Trobriand Islands

Gunter Senft

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Language and Culture Categorization, perception, and language Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

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This paper discusses concepts of time on the Trobriand Islands. It illustrates how the Trobrianders refer to time in everyday verbal interaction as well as during the harvest festivals when the society is regulated by a concept of time « where the present and the past are so fused that the present is a mere manifestation of the past » (Bloch 1989 : 16). This concept finds its verbal expression in special songs which represent a marked language variety and can be regarded as a form of « ritual communication ». Thus, Trobriand Islanders differentiate between the more mundane notion of time and notions of time expressed in ritual contexts

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1992The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay 1994The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images.1977The Past and the Present in the Present 1981The Past as a Scarce Resource 1988The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea 1916Baloma; The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands.1909Les rites de passage : étude systématique des rites de la porte et du seuil, de l'hospitalité, de l'adoption, de la grossesse et de l'accouchement, de la naissance, de l'enfance, de la puberté, de l'initiation, de l'ordination, du couronnement des fiançailles et du mariage, des funérailles, des saisons, etc 1985Trauer auf Trobriand: Eine ethnologisch/-linguistische Fallstudie

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