scholarly journals The tone system of Poko-Rawo (Skou)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura McPherson ◽  
Matthew S. Dryer
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
The Right ◽  
Phonetic Realization

This paper describes the tone system of Poko-Rawo, a Skou language spoken in northwestern Papua New Guinea. The system displays a number of points of interest to tonal typology, including: a distinction between underlying specified Mid tones and M tones filled in by default; a dispreference for single-toned melodies; a preference for rising tones rather than falling tones; and strict alignment of Low and High tones, with L always initial and H always final in a melody. These alignment principles extend to floating tones, as floating L is always to the left of a stem and floating H always to the right. We provide a detailed description of underlying melodies, postlexical processes, and phonetic realization of tone in Poko in an effort to bring more Papuan data to bear on questions of tonal typology.

Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys levipes and P. mollis (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of three new genera and nine new species (Nematoda)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4861 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-572
Author(s):  
LESLEY SMALES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Gastrointestinal Nematodes ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Bishop Museum ◽  
Female Tail ◽  
Putative Species ◽  
Host Habitat ◽  
The Right

Nematodes from four families comprising 18 species identified to species level, six to subfamily level as well as larval and adult heligmonellids and juvenile females of an undetermined family were recovered from eight individuals of Paramelomys levipes and 27 individuals of P. mollis (Muridae: Murinae: Uromys Division) from Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia. Originally all the hosts were registered as P. levipes in the Australian and Bishop museum collections, but the probable identity of the host individuals was decided according to the altitude of the collection sites. A capillariid, Capillaria s. l., a putative species of the Nippostrongylinae and a small number of male and female nippostrongylins could not be identified further. The spirurid Protospirura kaindiensis had been previously reported from Sahulan Old Endemic fauna. The oxyurid Syphacia (Syphacia) dewiae n. sp. differed from all its congeners in having an oval laterally extended cephalic plate with a dorso-ventral constriction, cervical and lateral alae, a female tail up to 1400 long and a spicule up to 102 long. The remaining species, all heligmonellids included the brevistriatin Macrostrongylus ingens and 14 nippostrongylin species. Of these Hughjonestrongylus amplicauda, H. mirzai, H. singauwaensis, and Odilia mackerrasae had been reported previously in species of Paramelomys. Species of Flannerystrongylus and Parasabanema, possibly new species, could not be described further. Flannerystrongylus chisholmae n. sp., a smaller worm, differed from its congener F. abulus in having a spicule to body length ratio of 13.2% and only 6 eggs in utero. Helgenema keablei n. gen., n. sp. differed from the 44 nippostrongylin genera known to date in having a synlophe of 11– 15 small ridges and a left cuticular dilatation supported anteriorly by a single large ridge. Paramelomystrongylus dessetae n. gen., n. sp. differed from all other nippostrongylin genera in having a synlophe of 13–16 ridges with a type A carene supported by 2 hypertrophied ridges and the right lateral ridges larger than the dorsal and ventral ridges. Parasabanema sene n. sp. differed from its congener, P. szalayi, in having a synlophe of 30 ridges. Hughjonestrongylus alisoni n. sp., H. arfakiensis n. sp., H. digianiae n. sp. and H. spratti n. sp. were distinguished from all other species of Hughjonestrongylus and each other by a combination of characters including the number of synlophe ridges, 28, 21–26, 20–23, 22–25 respectively, in the mid body, spicule length, proportions of the ovejector and shape of the female posterior end. The combined helminth assemblage was dominated by heligmonellids, as has been reported for other paramelomys, with eight species as well as the oxyurid being unique to P. levipes and P. mollis. Overlapping of host habitat could account for the similarities of the nematode assemblages recorded for those species of paramelomys that have been studied. 

Quo Vadis, Performance History?

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schechner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Art History ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Performance History ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
The Right

Frankly, I'm not much of a historian. That is, the past interests me mostly as grist for my theoretical mill. I am not nostalgic. I don't often trek through ruins—whether of stone, paintings, videotape, paper, library stacks, or my own many notebooks. Of course, I've done the right thing when it comes to this kind of activity. I have climbed the pyramids at Teotihuacan and in Mayan country, sat on stone benches of the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens and in Epidaurus (where I was tormented by some really awful productions of ancient Greek dramas), and visited the theatre museums of four continents. On the art-history front, I've gazed at more paintings and sculptings than I can readily organize in memory. But my strongest meetings with “history” have been at the cusp of the past and present—living events always already changing as they are (re)performed. This has been the core of my “anthropology-meets-theatre” work whether among the Yaquis of Arizona, at the Ramlila of Ramnagar in India, in the highlands of Papua–New Guinea, at Off-Off Broadway in New York, in the interior of China, and at very many other events in a wide variety of places.

Cognitive-behaviour therapy for panic disorder: A Papua New Guinea case

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 9-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Marai
Keyword(s):  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Previous History ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

The case of a 43 year old Papua New Guinea man with no previous history of psychological disorder who was diagnosed as suffering panic disorder is described. This case illustrates the possible applicability of cognitive-behaviour therapy to Papua New Guineans with a range of anxiety problems.The patient, Mr A, is a 43 year old married father of four children, employed in a supervisory position with a large PNG corporation. He comes from a middle class family of nine children and describes his childhood in bright colours. He completed ten years of schooling before obtaining a job with his current employer. There was no family history of psychiatric disorder.Mr A's presenting concern was pain on the right side of his arm and regular severe headaches. Mr A first experienced the pain in 1986 when it lasted for a few weeks and than stopped. However, in 1990 the pain returned. Mr A sought medical treatment and analgesic drugs were prescribed. The drugs relieved the pain but for only a short time.

scholarly journals The Legitimacy of Bougainville Secession from Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sandy Ilmi
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Coercive Measure ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Government Response ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Papua New Guinean ◽  
The Normative Question

What started as a movement to demand a distributive justice in mining revenue in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, the conflict turned into the struggle for secession. From 1970’s the demand for secession have been rife and despite early agreement for more autonomy and more mining revenue for the autonomous region, the demand never faded. Under Francis Ona’s Bougainville Revolutionary Army, the movement take a new heights. Bougainville Revolutionary Army took coercive measure to push the government to acknowledge their demands by taking over the mine at Panguna. Papua New Guinean government response was also combative and further exacerbate the issue. Papua New Guinean Defense Force involvement adding the issue of human rights into the discourse. This paper will seek to analyze the normative question surrounding the legitimacy of the right to secession in Bougainville Island. The protracted conflict has halted any form of development in the once the most prosperous province of Papua New Guinea and should Bougainville Island become independent, several challenges will be waiting for Bougainvilleans.

scholarly journals The History of *=a

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-568
Author(s):  
Don Daniels ◽  
Joseph Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Contact Areas ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

This paper discusses the historical borrowing of an enclitic across unrelated Papuan languages spoken along the lower Sogeram River in the Middle Ramu region of present-day Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The enclitic *=a, which attached to the right edge of a prosodic unit, was borrowed from the Ramu family into the ancestor of three modern Sogeram languages. Both morphological and prosodic substance were borrowed, as was the dual functionality of the enclitic – as a pragmatic marker in independent utterances and a linking device on dependent domains. We discuss the clitic’s formal and functional properties as evidence for its contact-induced origin and subsequent historical development in western Sogeram, as well as the implications of these developments for our understanding of morphological and pragmatic borrowing. The complexities of this borrowing event highlight the potential for theories of language contact to benefit from collaborative research on previously unstudied contact areas.

scholarly journals Crossing the Border:

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
alan e.d. smith
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
Do So

Synopsis The response of the Papua New Guinea government to the refugee influx of 1984 was conditioned by the Australian administration’s approach to border management prior to Papua New Guinea independence and by the Papua New Guinea - Indonesia border agreement. This approach is one of containment. The unprecedented scale of the refugee influx in 1984 caused a policy crisis for Papua New Guinea. Efforts to encourage refugees to return home met resistance from the refugees and caused public controversy. In 1985 when West Papuan refugees arrived in Australia for the first time, the Australian government demonstrated it's continuing commitment to the policy of containment which was reflected in its refusal to support Papua New Guinea's attempts to internationalise the issue. The refugee influx afforded Papua New Guinea a legitimate opportunity to press for the cause of the problem to be examined. But it's attempts to do so were abandoned for want of international, crucially Australian, support. A massive influx of refugees should automatically set in motion an international process to examine root causes of the influx in order to bring about the necessary conditions for voluntary repatriation. The achievement of the changes in Irian Jaya necessary to resolve the conflict between West Papuan nationalists and the Indonesian state may depend on the creation of new international measures to address the whole class of frustrated claims to the right of self-determination. What is needed is an authoritative international process through which self-determination claims can be assessed and a range of forms through which the aspirations they represent can be satisfied.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document