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dc.contributor.authorMimica, Jadran
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T05:32:58Z
dc.date.available2023-09-21T05:32:58Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76356
dc.description.abstractFor the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea womba is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh. Drawing on long-term research among the Yagwoia, and in an analysis informed by phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Jadran Mimica explores the womba complex in its local cultural-existential determinations and regional permutations. He attends to the lived experience of this complex in relation to the wider context of mortuary practices, feasting, historical cannibalism, and sorcery. His account of womba illuminates the moral meanings of Yagwoia selfhood, and associated senses of subjectivity and agency. Mimica concludes by reflecting on the recent escalation of concerns with witchcraft and sorcery in Papua New Guinea, specifically in relation to a new wave of Christian evangelism occurring in partnership with the state.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherFolklore & Mythology
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherCultural & Social
dc.titleOf Humans, Pigs, and Souls
dc.title.alternativeAn Essay on the Yagwoia Womba Complex
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781912808311
oapen.relation.isbn9781912808717
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintHAU Books
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/6f76ebf1-c0f7-490d-8963-dc2bd41d6fe1
grantor.number106004


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