[An-lang] body = house = boat = family

[Geoff Wade]

Miriam,

 You may find the following item of interest:

 Pierre-Yves Manguin "Shipshape Societies: Boat Symbolism and Political Systems in Insular Southeast Asia" in  David G Marr and A.C. Milner "Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries" (Research School of Pacific Studies , ANU, 1986) pp 187-214.

Best wishes,

geoff wade

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	Dear Austronesianists,
	Throughout the Moluccas and the Timor area, and in both the Austronesian
	and Papuan groups, we find models of the 'whole' of society and its
	'parts' that involve the domains of the human body, the house, the boat,
	and the family, including the ancestors. Interestingly, often the same
	lexical items are used to refer to parts of bodies, houses, boats, and
	family or ancestral relationships. For example, Tidore - one of the Papuan
	languages of North Halmahera - has a single term that can be used to refer
	to the spine of the body, the ridge of a roof, the keel of a boat, and to
	one's parents or ancestors.
	To use (at least) one of these models seems only natural, especially
	for these seafaring island people, but what interests me is whether outside
	this region we also find the same set of models, and indeed similar
	conflations of meanings as in Tidore. My question to you is then whether
	this is commonly found throughout 'Austronesian', or whether it is
	restricted to Eastern Indonesia. Does anyone have useful references?
	Thank you very much!
	Miriam van Staden,
	University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
	
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