Guhu-Samane

English Alternative forms en Guhu Samane Etymology From en ghs Guhu-Samane, from ghs guhu poro house, men's house + ghs samane many, many men's houses, many villages 1.Courtney Handman 2015 Critical Christianity: Translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea Oakland, California University of California Press 978-0-520-28375-6 104 Noun Guhu-Samane Guhu-Samanes Guhu-Samane A member of an ethnic group living in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea. en Mid-Waria en 1965 Ernest L. Richert How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation The Bible Translator 16 2 86 https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/richert-1965-how-the-guhu-samane-cult-of-poro-affects-translation.pdf However, the initiation discipline of the Guhu-Samanes gave a useful point of reference. https://web.archive.org/web/20250325000105/https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/richert-1965-how-the-guhu-samane-cult-of-poro-affects-translation.pdf 25 March 2025 en 2014 Courtney Handman The Future of Christian Critique: Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests Will Rollason New York Berghahn Books 978-1-78238-350-5 119 https://books.google.com/books?id=daD8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 In 2004, between my initial trip to the Waria and my later return for fieldwork, a Jew for Jesus named Gabriel came to visit the Guhu-Samane, a rural Papua New Guinean community in Morobe Province, for a few days to lead church services. en 2018 Matthew Engelke How to Think Like an Anthropologist Princeton Princeton University Press 978-0-691-17878-3 239 For Christian missionaries working in locales very distinct from the Mediterranean world, it was sometimes necessary, in colonial and more remote postcolonial contexts, to upend conventional metaphors and images found in the Bible. So, for the Guhu-Samane in Papua New Guinea, the “lamb of God” became “the roast pig of God.” Local people had no idea what lambs were, so to convey the importance of Jesus’ sacrifice, the translators turned to pigs, about which the Guhu-Samane know a lot (and which are commonly sacrificed in Melanesia). Translations person Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 古胡薩馬內人 Guhu-Samane: ghs Proper noun Guhu-Samane A language spoken by the Guhu-Samane people. en Mid-Waria en 1965 Ernest L. Richert How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation The Bible Translator 16 2 85 https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/richert-1965-how-the-guhu-samane-cult-of-poro-affects-translation.pdf There is no doubt it would be folly for the translator to adopt wholesale the terms and concepts of poro in his translation of the Bible into Guhu-Samane. https://web.archive.org/web/20250325000105/https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/richert-1965-how-the-guhu-samane-cult-of-poro-affects-translation.pdf 25 March 2025 en 2025 Joel Bradshaw Numbami Grammar in Ethnohistorical Context University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu 9798880701957 14 https://books.google.com/books?id=9jNWEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 The Numbami words likely to have been borrowed from Guhu-Samane include many terms for forest fauna and flora. Translations language Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 古胡薩馬內語, cmn 古胡語 Guhu-Samane: ghs Guhu-Samane noo Adjective Guhu-Samane - Of or relating to this ethnic group or their language. en 1965 Ernest L. Richert How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation The Bible Translator 16 2 85 https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/richert-1965-how-the-guhu-samane-cult-of-poro-affects-translation.pdf At the present stage none of these decisions is considered final, but honoring the background and the suggestions of the Guhu-Samane members of the panel is paying off. https://web.archive.org/web/20250325000105/https://translation.bible/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/richert-1965-how-the-guhu-samane-cult-of-poro-affects-translation.pdf 25 March 2025 References