on ”Mbisimo”

"The Zande actualizes these beliefs rather than intellectualizes them, and their tenets are expressed in socially controlled behaviour rather than in doctrines. Hence the difficulty of discussing the subject of witchcraft with Azande, for their ideas are imprisoned in action and cannot be cited to explain and justify action.(Evans-Pritchard 1937:82-83)"
ムビスモ(Mbisimo)
エドワード・エヴァン・エヴァンズ＝プリチャード(Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, 1902-1973)
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Consuming society : food and illness among the Faiwol / Barbara Ann Jones. -- (BB01782681)
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, c1980 ix, 454 leaves ; 22 cm
注記: Facsim. of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 1980 ; Bibliography: leaves 448-454 著者標目: Jones, Barbara Ann 分類: LCC : GN671.N5 件名: Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea ; Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs ; Faiwol (Papua New Guinean people)
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"The oecological cycle is a year. Its distinctive rhythm is the backwards and forwards movement from villages to camps, which is the Nuer's response to the climatic dichotomy of rains and drought … [while] social structure time is a relation between a man and the social activities which relate men structurally to one and another (Evans-Pritchard 1939: 189-192).―Nuer have no abstract numerical system of time-reckoning based on astronomical observations but only descriptive divisions of cycles of human activities … since the months are anchored to oecological and social process the calendar is a conceptual schema which enables Nuer to view the year as an ordered succession of changes and to calculate to some extent the relation between one event and another in abstract numerical symbols" (Evans-Pritchard 1939:197, 200).Nuer time-reckoning. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 12 (2).189-216.