Anthropology 3332F/G Chapter online reading : Anthro 3332 Week 11 Reading Notes on "The Afterlife of Asabano Corpses: Relationships with the Deceased in Papua New Guinea"
20 Nov 2017
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The afterlife of asabano corpses: relationships with the. Deceased in papua new guinea by roger lohmann. One of the most remarkable achievements of humankind is the belief that death need not end relations. Before contact with the west, the asabano of papua new guinea treated the dead in accordance to relationships. Often the person would be physically dead but not socially. They would place the bones on top of hills overlooking if they were an important person. Then placed in house where only men could enter. Their bones were used to support the living. The important women"s bones would be kept inside house where they lived. But unimportant people were discarded because they could not help the living. Enemies were spiritually destroyed by being thrown in rivers or eaten. After contact and conversion in 1970s to christianity, they now do burials and bone relics are no longer apparent.
