Fête funéraire à Lendombwey (Centre-Sud Malekula) - article ; n°53 ; vol.32, pg 293-298

Catherine D.Huchet

Description

Journal de la Société des océanistes - Année 1976 - Volume 32 - Numéro 53 - Pages 293-298
The author describes a funeral ceremony — netemestamp — in which she had been able to participate during a brief stay in 1974 at Lendombwey, centre-south Malekula, in the Mbotgote group (small Nambas). The ceremony, dedicated to seven dead people, was organized around the presentation of funerary objects of high quality, of which there were seven rambaramb and many temes nevimbür. It was the occasion for an important exchange of possessions (tubers and pigs) between the relatives of the deceased. The two days of the ceremony and its key moments (dance of the marionettes and departure of the mortuary effigies) are first retraced chronologically. The reconstitution of the genealogies of the village makes it possible to evoke the identity and rôle of the organisers of the ceremony. This tentative explanation is the subject of the second part of the article, which ends with information gathered on the ways of participation in the ceremony, and the exchange and redistribution of possessions.
6 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

Informations

• Publié par: JOURNAL_DE_LA_SOCIETE_DES_OCEANISTES
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1976
• Nombre de lectures: 32
• Langue: Français

Extrait

Catherine D. Huchet

Fête funéraire à Lendombwey (Centre-Sud Malekula)

In: Journal de la Société des océanistes. N°53, Tome 32, 1976. pp. 293-298.

Abstract

The author describes a funeral ceremony — netemestamp — in which she had been able to participate during a brief stay in

1974 at Lendombwey, centre-south Malekula, in the Mbotgote group (small Nambas). The ceremony, dedicated to seven dead

people, was organized around the presentation of funerary objects of high quality, of which there were seven rambaramb and

many temes nevimbür. It was the occasion for an important exchange of possessions (tubers and pigs) between the relatives of

the deceased. The two days of the ceremony and its key moments (dance of the "marionettes" and departure of the mortuary

effigies) are first retraced chronologically. The reconstitution of the genealogies of the village makes it possible to evoke the

identity and rôle of the organisers of the ceremony. This tentative explanation is the subject of the second part of the article,

which ends with information gathered on the ways of participation in the ceremony, and the exchange and redistribution of

possessions.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Huchet Catherine D. Fête funéraire à Lendombwey (Centre-Sud Malekula). In: Journal de la Société des océanistes. N°53,

Tome 32, 1976. pp. 293-298.

doi : 10.3406/jso.1976.2755

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jso_0300-953X_1976_num_32_53_2755