Abstract
Further Notes on Kula Ring Calendrics-and Megaliths? Towards an Archaeology of Austronesian East Asian Connections
Highlights
A brief return to investigate a hypothesis about the relationship between Chinese astronomical beliefs and spatial concepts in the Kula Ring in eastern Papua New Guinea turned up a new understanding of fundamental cosmological principles on Muyuw, known as Woodlark Island
“‘So present was this divine and celestial character to the Polynesian mind that they called the chiefs lani, heaven, and the same word marae is used of a temple and a chief’s grave’ (Hocart [1927] 1969:11)” [1]. This short communication concerns the social structure and cosmology of what is known as the Kula Ring in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
The Kula Ring has been a classic region in the anthropological world of since Bronislaw Malinowski ethnographic writings on the Trobriand Islands[2], and one of the empirical centres for the reworking of exchange theory from the 1970s and 1980s [3,4,5,6,7]
Summary
A brief return to investigate a hypothesis about the relationship between Chinese astronomical beliefs and spatial concepts in the Kula Ring in eastern Papua New Guinea turned up a new understanding of fundamental cosmological principles on Muyuw, known as Woodlark Island. The region forms a cluster of Austronesian languages belonging to a group labelled Papuan Tip. And exclusive of some of the Rossel Island work, much of the region’s archaeology is consistent with this relatively recent time frame. Glob J Arch & Anthropol 5(1): GJAA.MS.ID.555654 (2018)
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