Perspectives on the bird's head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia : proceedings of the Conference, Leiden, 13-17 October 1997

Preface SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, NATURAL SCIENCES A.J. STRATHERN: Comparisons past and present: pathways and projections for Irian Studies A. SOEGIARTO: Strengthening partnership through cooperative research ANTHROPOLOGY, DEMOGRAPHY, ETHNOHISTORY: FROM INLAND TO COAST E.K.M. MASINAMBOW: Anthropological fieldwork and international cooperation I. COURTENS: 'As one woman to the other'. Female ritual healers in Northwest Ayfat L. THOONEN: 'We have accepted the father first'. The arrival of the Catholic Church in Northwest Ayfat J. TIMMER: Lost power, concealed knowledge, and the return of the Kingdom among the Imyan of the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya H. LAUTENBACH: Demographic survey research: data gathering (problems) on the subject of fertility in the Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya D. VAN OOSTERHOUT: Fertility and the mediating body in Inanwatan, south coastal Bird's Head of Irian Jaya J. POUWER: The enigma of the unfinished male: an entry to East Bird's Head mytho-logics, Irian Jaya J. MIEDEMA: Culture hero stories and tales of tricksters. The Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya in a comparative perspective (II) P. HAENEN: History, exchange, and myth in the southeastern Bird's Head of Irian Jaya BIRD'S HEAD ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS: INLAND, COAST, AND BEYOND J. LIEP: Connubia in the making: a comparative view on the kain timur complex P.J. STEWART: Ritual trackways and sacred paths of fertility V. HEESCHEN: New Guinea myths and fairy tales seen from the Irian Jaya mountains P.J. STEWART & A.J. STRATHERN: Pathways of power, rumors of fear: the imagination of space in montane New Guinea D. MEARNS: Urban social forms in Eastern Indonesia: multiple logics and lived experience C.J. HEALEY: Political economy in the Kepala Burung region of Old Western New Guinea S. WIRAWAN SARWONO: The Amungme and the Kamoro in Mimikma Timur: a psychological analysis R. RUSMAN: Youth, education and employment in Irian Jaya HISTORY F. HUIZINGA: Relations between Tidore and the north coast of New Guinea in the nineteenth century T. GOODMAN: The sosolot exchange network in Eastern Indonesia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries J.A. OVERWEEL: 'A systematic activity'. Military exploration in Western New Guinea, 1907-1915 P.J. DROOGLEVER: Documents on the contest for Western New Guinea/Irian Barat, 1945-1963 A.K. OGLOBLIN: Commemorating N.N. Miklukho-Maclay LINGUISTICS: BIRD'S HEAD, AND BEYOND W.A. FOLEY: Toward understanding Papuan languages C. BERRY: The art of the storyteller in Abun society P. DOL: Form and function of demonstratives in Maybrat G. GRAVELLE: Syntactic constructions and the Meyah lexicon C. ODE: The bird said 'I am here': a prosodic study of the waimon story in Mpur G.P. REESINK: The Bird's Head as Sprachbund L. DE VRIES: Some remarks on the linguistic position of the Inanwatan language A. PAWLEY: The Trans New Guinea Phylum hypothesis: a reassessment M. VAN STADEN: Where does Malay end and Tidore begin? GEOLOGY, BOTANY, ARCHAEOLOGY N. RATMAN: Geology of the Bird's Head, Irian Jaya, Indonesia R.A.C. DAM: Cenozoic geological development and environmental settings of the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya T.R. CHARLTON: Yapen island: a right-lateral paradox in the left-lateral 'North New Guinea Megashear'. Implications for the biogeography and geological development of the Bird's Head, Irian Jaya M.J.S. SANDS, R.J. JOHNS, M.J.E. COODE & J. MARSDEN: Flora of the northeast Vogelkop K.P. APLIN: Vertebrate Zoogeography of the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia J.M. PASVEER & K.P. APLIN: Late Pleistocene to modern vertebrate faunal succession and environmental change in lowland New Guinea: evidence from the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia M. SPRIGGS: The archaeology of the Bird's Head in its Pacific and Southeast Asian context T. SIMANJUNTAK: Review of the prehistory of Irian Jaya P. BELLWOOD: From Bird's Head to bird's eye view long term structures and trends in Indo-Pacific prehistory