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The Urapmin people are an ethnic group numbering about 375 people in the Telefomin District of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. One of the Min peoples who inhabit this area, the Urapmin share the common Min practices of hunter-gatherer subsistence, taro cultivation, and formerly, an elaborate secret cult available only to initiated men. The Urapmin used to ally with the Telefolmin in war against other Min peoples, practicing cannibalism against the enemy dead, but warfare ceased by the 1960s with the arrival of colonialism. A Christian revival in the 1970s led to the near-wholesale abandonment of traditional beliefs and the adoption of a form of Charismatic Christianity originally derived from Baptist Christianity. The Urapmin vigorously use their native Urap language, and their small community maintains the practice of endogamy. == Classification == The Urapmin are one of the Min peoples, a group of related peoples in Papua New Guinea who number about thirty thousand in total.〔〔 Min peoples are mainly found in the Telefomin District, spread from the mountains of the Strickland River to West Papua Province. The name ''Min'' derives from the suffix ''-min'', meaning 'peoples', which is present in their names (e.g. Telefolmin, Wopkaimin, etc.). Min peoples may also be known as Mountain Ok peoples, from the word ''ok'' meaning 'river' or 'water'.〔 The latter name contrasts them with the Lowland Ok people to the south who speak related languages but differ greatly culturally and in the environment that they live in.〔 The Urapmin speak a Mountain Ok language.〔 Although this language family is tied to the Min ethnic grouping, it does not absolutely define the group, since the Oksapmin to the east and the Om river groups speak non-Mountain Ok languages.〔 The Urapmin kinship system is cognatic;〔 in general the western Min groups have bilateral kinship systems, while the eastern Min groups have patrilineal kinship systems.〔 The Min peoples are fairly homogeneous in technology, economy, and subsistence.〔 This includes hunting and gathering from forests and stream-beds, shifting taro cultivation, and raising small numbers of domestic pigs.〔 Min material culture is also fairly uniform; Telefol women describe bilums throughout the Min region as being of "one kind", though there is some stylistic variation. A salient shared feature of Min culture is a common origin myth and initiation into a secret male religious cult.〔〔 Traditionally, the Min believed that all Min peoples other than the Baktaman are children of Afek, the "Primal Mother" and originator of all Min culture and religion. The types and number of cult initiation ceremonies differed among different Min groups.〔 The Telefol in particular were viewed as being guardians of Afek's legacy since they were her lastborn,〔 and the Urapmin were close to the Telefol in the Min ritual hierarchy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Urapmin people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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