Year: 1981
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In the introduction to this book I have mentioned two dialects in the Jaqaj language: one is spoken in the southern district of the Nambéömön, Bapaé, and Mäbur rivers, and the other in the northern district of the river Oba and its tributaries.The boundaries of these areas more or less coincide with those of administrative units initiated by the government.The villages in these districts 1 have been mapped 2 as situated along the rivers.They are combinations of earlier settlements of groups living in that area.Thus, for example, the groups now living together in the village of Jatan had landed properties on the river Nambéömön but were spread over several settlements.The two districts can be subdivided into several territories.The J aqaj themselves distinguished between the territories of the Nambéömön-wir, the Mäbur-wir, and the Bapaé-wir in the southern district and the Ribu-wir, the Ob a-wir and the Miwämön-wir in the northern district.The word wir means people, i.e. people living on the rivers of th at name.These territories are further subdivided.Every river has two parts: upstream or enöm-muku, the head of the river, and downstream or enöm-amarao, the mouth of the river.In the northern district such a subdivision is clearly demonstrabie for the rivers Oba and Miwämön.On the river Oba they distinguish between the upper-course villages of Masin, Wajru, Kandajmu, Rajöm and Moïn and the lower-course villages of Képi, Toba, Waman and Dagimono On the river Miwämön a similar distinction is made between J.H.M.C. Boelaars -9789004287235
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: J.H.M.C. Boelaars
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4299654425