Abelam people

"Abelam" redirects here. For the language, see Abelam language.
Abelam
Languages
Abelam
Religion
Christianity (Roman Catholicism Protestantism), traditional beliefs
Related ethnic groups
Sepik-speaking peoples
Especially Iatmul and Swagap
An Abelam yam harvest ceremony spirit mask (baba) in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

The Abelam are a people who live in East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. They are a farming society in which giant yams play a significant role. They live in the Prince Alexander Mountains near the north coast of the island. Their language belongs to the Sepik language family.

Farming and hunting

The Abelam live in the tropical rain forest and clear ground by burning. Their main food crops are yams, taro, bananas, and sweet potatoes. They supplement this with food gathered from the rain forest as well as pigs and chickens raised domestically. They also hunt small marsupials and cassowaries.

Yams

Yam growing forms a large part of Abelam society. The growing of large yams (they can be as large as 80-90 inches (2.3 m) long) determines the status of individuals as well as the whole village.[1] At yam festivals an individual would give his largest yam to his worst enemy who would then be obligated to grow an even larger yam or have his status fall each year in which he was unable to do so. Separate villages would gather at yam festivals where the hosting village's status would be determined by the size of their yams as well as their ability to provide more food than could be eaten and carried away by the rival village.

During the yam growing season, strong emotions were kept to a minimum as they were thought to impede the growth of the yams. Fighting was taboo as was sexual activity. It was thought that the yams had a spirit and could sense any of these strong emotions.[2]

References

  1. ^ Human. Winston, Robert M. L., Wilson, Don E., Smithsonian Institution. (1st American ed.). London: DK Publishing. 2004. p. 462. ISBN 0-7566-0520-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Scaglion, Richard (2007). Abelam: giant yams and cycles of sex, warfare and ritual. In Discovering Anthropology: Researchers at Work - Cultural Anthropology, edited by C.R. Ember and M. Ember. Pearson Prentice Hall, pp. 21-31.



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