Rituals And Relationships In The Valley Of The Sun: The Ketengban Of Irian Jaya (sil International Publications In Ethnography 30) [Paperback]

Looks at the culture of the Ketengban people (eastern highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia).

Describes Ketengban

• cosmology and their view of man and the spirits
• pregnancy and childbirth practices, and
• kinship system.

Table of Contents

Map of Irian Jaya
Preface

1. Of Red Men and Rituals: The Ketengban and the Supernatural
   ???by Andrew Sims
2. Myth and Metaphor in Ketengban Pregnancy and Childbirth Practices
   ???by Anne Sims
3. The Clans That Birthed Me: Ketengban Kinship
   ???by Andrew Sims and Joyce Sterner