Guhu-Samane

plural Guhu-Samanes · alternative Guhu Samane

1. A member of an ethnic group living in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea.

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

   1965, Ernest L. Richert, “How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation”, in The Bible Translator, volume 16, number 2, page 86

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   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.

   2014, Courtney Handman, “The Future of Christian Critique: Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics”, in Will Rollason, editor, Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests, New York: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 119

   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).

   2018, Matthew Engelke, How to Think Like an Anthropologist, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 239

   Synonyms: Mid-Waria

alternative Guhu Samane

1. A language spoken by the Guhu-Samane people.

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

   2025, Joel Bradshaw, Numbami Grammar in Ethnohistorical Context, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, →ISBN, page 14

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   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.

   1965, Ernest L. Richert, “How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation”, in The Bible Translator, volume 16, number 2, page 85

   Synonyms: Mid-Waria

alternative Guhu Samane

1. not comparableOf or relating to this ethnic group or their language.

   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.

   1965, Ernest L. Richert, “How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation”, in The Bible Translator, volume 16, number 2, page 85