Looking Through Ancestors Eye-Holes
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491_9789980939692
This book is on epistemology, mind-body-spirit, and social ethical forms of the Lauum people, West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. The aim of the book is to expose the Lauum epistemology, mind-body-spirit, and ethical forms of life. The desire for understanding concerns two issues. The first concerns method. What are the best methods to use in reconstructing the Lauum forms of life? Oral history skills are used in collecting the data. For reconstructing the book, the author adopted a hermeneutic approach. Insights are drawn across various disciplines. Ethnography, history, linguistics, philosophy, and literature forged a dialogic understanding of Lauum knowledge and values.The study concerns itself on the nature of knowledge in Lauum. This book embraces the qualitative methodology. It engages the study on Lauum epistemology, the concept of self, social ethics, spiritual, and aesthetic values. At the theoretical level, paradigms of understandings are engaged from ethnographers, historians, linguists, philosophers, and literary writers. The discussions, however, turn away from a rational objectivism and turn toward the conception of a more relativistic universe and poststructuralist epistemologies (Rudestam 2001). The views presented belong to us because they are informed by the Lauum traditions and contexts. The views also engage in a reformulation of the Lauum peoples identity by the author in the present.The second issue is about preservation. Modernity entices the hearts and minds of the Lauum people to move away gradually from their traditions. The way forward is via a critical analysis of western constructions of modernity. This must be followed by reconstruction. The book aims at reconstructing and re-empowering the Lauum people. The author returns self-belief to the Lauum people who must believe in their abilities to solve their problems and develop their full potentials.The book selects and explores the main cultural forms that ar
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