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- Title: Note on the Reincarnation Beliefs of the Gumini People of the Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea.
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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The Gumini people live in the south-east of the Simbu Province in the Highlands of New Guinea. (Brown 1972) They speak one of a variety of mutually comprehensible dialects of Kuman, the main language of the Province. They see themselves to be culturally distinct from the Kuman speakers in a number of important ways. This contrasts with the view of many expatriates who tend to see the similarities rather than the differences in Simbu tribal cultures. I am unaware how widespread the reincarnation beliefs of the Guminis as described in this article are among the other peoples of Simbu or neighbouring Provinces. Traditionally Gumini people believed that only some people were reincarnated, but were unable to predict who would be and who would not be reincarnated. Nor could they explain why some people were reincarnated and others not. It seemed to be arbitrary, depending upon whether an appropriate living person became available for the spirit of the deceased to enter.