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'Are my brothers fucking your sister?' Shaming and being (a)shamed in a Sepik society

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dc.contributor.authorHoenigman, Darja
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-24T22:42:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.updated2020-07-06T08:24:59Z
dc.description.abstractSome months after being verbally abused by his wife in a domestic quarrel, an Awiakay man died. One of the rumours that circulated about his death was that it was caused by his having been so badly shamed. The Awiakay people of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea use the same verb root, munjoko-, to express what translates into English as both ‘feeling shame’ and ‘feeling fear’. Based on video recordings and verbatim transcripts of a number of domestic and intra-village fights, as well as subsequent discussions with all involved parties, this article examines the ways the Awiakay people use their language to shame one another and tries to explain why they are afraid of being (a)shamed.
dc.identifier.issn1757-6547
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/98915
dc.publisherAustralian Anthropological Society Inc
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Anthropology
dc.title'Are my brothers fucking your sister?' Shaming and being (a)shamed in a Sepik society
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage397
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage381
local.contributor.affiliationHoenigman, Darja, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidHoenigman, Darja, u4470946
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200320 - Pacific Languages
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4632067xPUB187
local.identifier.citationvolume26
local.identifier.doi10.1111/taja.12153
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84964466910
local.identifier.thomsonID000365754200005
local.type.statusPublished Version

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