| Summary: | SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1) Borut TELBAN: Fear, Shame and the Power of the Gaze in Ambonwari, Papua New Guinea 2) Julia ELYACHAR: Striking for Debt: Power, Finance, and Governmentality in Egypt 3) Bogomir NOVAK: Does the Nine-year Primary School Favour Learning over Teaching? 4) Karl M. WOSCHITZ: Ekstase und Zeit: Die Duplizität des Dionysischen und Apollinischen als Leitbegriffe BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 5) É. B. BODZSÁR, A. ZSÁKAI, K. JAKAB & K. B. TÓTH : Body Fatness and Sexual Saturation Status 6) Ewa RĘBACZ: Škerlj's Stoutness Index in Young Males in East Africa OBITUARY7) Tatjana TOMAZO-RAVNIK: Ottó G. EIBEN --- 1) Borut Telban, Fear, Shame and The Power of the Gaze in Ambonwari, Papua New Guinea The following artide is about fear, shame and seeing and about the relation between them among Karawari speaking Ambonwari, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. When discussing the topic of fear in Papua New Guinea one cannot avoid confronting the notion of the, paranoid ethos' of Melanesian societies as proposed by Schwartz (1973). I discuss this at the beginning and show how both anxiety and fear are counteracted by what I have called 'care'. I present fear and anxiety as two separate concepts and I discuss their internalisation. After explaining Karawari terminology, I focus on Ambonwari notions concerning their fear of strangers, animals, and storms. The main body of the paper examines Ambonwari responses to the gaze of others. By recognizing how relationships between people and stability of the whole village can be constructed, modified and even controlled by fear, shame and pride (all of them consequences of a powerful gaze) Ambonwari men manipulate the visibility of behaviour (male defecation, for example) and things (carved spirits, for example) which are closely related to the undesired effects of the three emotional states mentioned above. In this way fear of being seen becomes important for social control and greatly influences people's shared reality and conduct. Moreover, ...
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