Mountain Ok people
Min peoplesorMountain Okare a cultural group in theWest Sepik ProvinceofPapua New GuineaandHighlands PapuainIndonesia.[1][2]
The Min peoples, though multiple distinct peoples, shared a ritual system.[3]TheTelefolwere acknowledged by the Min as being at the highest level of sacred knowledge, and groups such as theBaktamanwere at the lowest level. In this ranking, theUrapminwere either at the top or at least very close to the Telefol.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Moretti (2007:306)
- ^Barker (2007:28)
- ^Robbins (2004:15)
- ^Robbins (2004:17)
Bibliography
[edit]- Barker, John (2007).The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond.Ashgate Publishing,Ltd.ISBN978-0754671855.
- Moretti, Daniele (2007). "Ecocosmologies in the Making: New Mining Rituals in Two Papua New Guinea Societies".Ethnology.46(4).
- Robbins, Joel (2004).Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society.University of California Press.pp.383.ISBN978-0-520-23800-8.