Anthropos: Anthropos, 68.1973

Anthropos, 68.1973

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Titel:: Anthropos

Untertitel:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Erscheinungsort:: Fribourg

Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 68.1973

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1973

Signatur:: LA 1118

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 68, 1973, Heft 1-2

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Nose Flute Blowers of the Malayan Aborigines (Orang Asli)

Sonstige Person:: Werner, R.

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

182 R. Werner Anthropos 68. 1973 The symbolic importance of the nose lies in the fact that it is essential for normal respiration and therefore directly involved in the “life and death” relationship. The smelling function also has a metaphysical aspect in sub-conscious human behaviour. Many factors such as “totemistic, manistic, animistic and atmospheric ideas” (Wolf 1941) have to be considered to understand its importance. In the old cosmologies, nasal breathing and the nostrils play an important role. In some rituals, breathing with the nose had to be done either with the right or left side only, because of the belief that a “serpent body channel” originated in each of both nostrils (Avalon 1913 and 1919). In the field of astrology a relationship was established: between Mars - the right nostril - and Circumcision (Sachs 1929). Fliess (1926) commented on the relationship of the nose to the sexual organs. In New Guinea and parts of Africa native medicaments and body fluid of a deceased were applied into the nose as a ritual part of magic medicine. Also the bina manipulation of the Brazilian jungle people may be mentioned here. In India the nose was cleaned with a string by the Yoga. The application of tobacco into the nose for sneezing purposes is also relevant. It is of interest that nasal customs in the primitive cultures, such as the African Pygmies, the bushmen, are not found. The New Guinea people have nasal decorations. Only in the South Seas, India, and the Americas (there in regions of the old empires, the Brazilian jungle, as well as few North American tribes) nasal customs are preserved (Wolf 1941). The nose ring, as part of many nasal decorations is considered in India as a sign of marriage happiness. In the Nilgherries (India) a nasal ring has also been worshipped. Greeting with the nose was widespread (Andree 1889). To become a “blood brother” both men had to rub with the nose on each other. Also during marriage ceremonies nasal contact and rubbing was an important part. The biting or cutting off the nose was punishment for adultery in North America, Samoa, and Micronesia, but has also been found as a motive in Indian fairy tales in connection with jealousy. Besides splitting or deforming the nose, the perforation of the nasal septum was done in Melanesia for religious reasons, to improve the position of the dead in the “other world”. In New Guinea the colouring of the nose was also done to show sadness after someone died. The different coloured nose had its significance in the life and dead relationship in the Americas. In the field of art the nose makes an important part of the masks. Long noses of the Melanesian masks are abstractions of the “soul bird”. The same importance of the nose applies, for instance, to the New Guinea ceramics. Resulting from the part the nose plays in the magic cults and fertility conceptions it seems to be specifically qualified for blowing an instrument. A relationship between the custom of nose flute blowing and the use

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