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Tracking the Ancestors
This rich ethnography, a thoroughly revised version of a book published in 1991, presents long-term and new research findings on the Nyaura (or West Iatmul) people, a society on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Nyaura mythology centres around the primeval journeys of their ancestors who – accompanied by powerful, versatile crocodiles – formed the landscape and founded settlements; it is expressed and stored in numerous long song cycles and visualised in unique knotted cords.