20.500.12556/DiRROS-31871 Kunaypa historicity: conceptual specificity of temporal reciprocity in the Sepik, Papua New Guinea If we accept that anthropology of history transforms history into asubject of investigation rather than just a form of knowledge andsocial practice, then the ethnography of history must delve intolocal ways of thinking, living, and acting. The language of thepeople is key to gaining insight into the relational and temporalmodes of existence of society. Among the Karawari people ofPapua New Guinea, these modes play an important role invarious aspects of cosmological and social life, all of which areintimately connected to land. The Karawari term kunaypa (debt,obligation, duty; moral value and law) underscores the viewthat relationships at all levels – cosmological, social, national,international – should be based on generosity and reciprocity. Itis the undeniable quality of human and non-human agency.Kunaypa refers to the specific past (event, being, practice) and atthe same time to the specific future. The multiple instances ofkunaypi (plural of kunaypa) lead to multiple intergenerationalcommitments, as various emplaced historical experiences liedormant. When these experiences are recalled and concreteactions are taken, they emphasize the interconnectedness, indeedequation, of past and future. regime of historicity reciprocity language and temporality (in)commensurability kunaypa Papua New Guinea režim historičnosti recipročnost jezik in časovnost (ne)komenzurabilnost kunaypa Papua Nova Gvineja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik © 2026 The Author(s). Neznano 2026-08-13 15:21:59 2026-08-13 15:22:00 2026-08-14 03:48:14 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 13 str. 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 39:115(954) 0275-7206 10.1080/02757206.2026.2687544 286264835 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2026.2687544#abstract 1 f84a0b62-9719-11f1-af5a-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=49535 Kunaypa_historicity_Conceptual_specificity_of_temporal_reciprocity_in_the_Sepik_Papua_New_Guinea.pdf Kunaypa_historicity_Conceptual_specificity_of_temporal_reciprocity_in_the_Sepik_Papua_New_Guinea.pdf 1 78FC3352D3D8D33EE6228A03EFB97670 2b523b6c0ab1633cafc9c66bb544d67fd52b864b889f286cfa264e5a020dc253 42362e95-971a-11f1-af5a-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=49536 Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti 0 0 0