Meaning of Guhu-Samane | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of an ethnic group living in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea.
2. A language spoken by the Guhu-Samane people.

Examples

“However, the initiation discipline of the Guhu-Samanes gave a useful point of reference.”

“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

“The Numbami words likely to have been borrowed from Guhu-Samane include many terms for forest fauna and flora.”

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