Otto, Ton (2014) Samvær og samtale med forfædrene på Manus: hvordan jeg genopdagede de dødes ånder / Living and talking with ancestors in Manus: how I rediscovered the spirits of the dead. In: Høiris, Ole, Otto, Ton, and Bonde Rolsted, Ane, (eds.) De Dødes Liv. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 79-85.

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[Extract Danish] På Manus tager de døde del i det daglige liv. Det er noget, som jeg har kendt til siden 1986, da jeg indledte mit feltarbejde på en lille ø i Bismarckhavet, Baluan, der er en del af Manusprovinsen i Papua Ny Guinea. Og dog, hvad er det for en viden, jeg har haft siden da? Min viden kom primært fra interviews og observationer, og det fik mig til at konkludere, at baluanerne tilskrev deres afdøde forfæedre en speciel magt og evne til at handle. Men forstod jeg egentlig fuldt ud, hvad det i virkeligheden vil sige at leve i en verden, der er befolket med forfaderånder? Det tror jeg ikke - og på en måde overrasker det mig faktisk.

[Extract English] In Manus the spirits of the dead are a part of daily life. This is something I have known since 1986, when I began my fieldwork on the small Island of Baluan in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. And still, what is it really that I have known so far? My knowledge derived primarily from interviews and observations, which led me to conclude that Baluan people ascribe special powers and agency to their ancestors. But did I really know what it means to live in a world populated with ancestral spirits? I do not think so. A number of recent events enabled me to better approach the phenomenological dimension of a world in which the spirits of the ancestors play a crucial part. In this article I describe the events as well as their ethnographic and theoretical import.

Item ID:	37302
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Other)
ISBN:	978-87-7124-358-1
Additional Information:	Main text is in Danish.
Date Deposited:	23 Oct 2017 00:17
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology @ 100%
SEO Codes:	97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society @ 50% 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9502 Communication > 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture @ 50%
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