By Richard J. Parmentier
Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure’s problem to check the "life of symptoms in society" through the use of semiotic instruments proposed by way of Charles Sanders Peirce. He experiences how semiotic concept can light up hugely complicated social and cultural practices.
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My mother sat in front opposite Mad's wife. Each of the two had gathered ten or twelve women around her, so that they formed an open halfcircle around the doorways. They wore their best clothes, whose hems they had dyed black as an external symbol of mourning. Red and white stones [male valuables] stood out brilliantly against their dark necks; they were carried to proudly display proof of their families' wealth. G I 55 jo' I Signs in Ethnographic Transactional Context I was told that, in Ngeremlengui, the mourning period at the death of the firstranking male titleholder, Ngirturong, would be ten days, for the second-ranking male titleholder, Ngiraklang, nine days, and for the third- and fourth-ranking titleholders seven days.
The sis rite is named after the ti plant, which used to be the instrument employed to divine the identity of the malevolent spirit which caused the death. Prior to the introduction of Christianity and Western notions of disease, this rite was a necessary intermediate step between the burial of the corpse and the final sending off of the personal ghost, after which point the grave can be safely sealed with stones. Four days after the burial, senior female relatives of the deceased would have prepared a bouquet of ti leaves rubbed with turmeric and coconut oil.
This change was the direct re- jro I Signs in Ethnographic Context suit of orders from German ( 1 8 9 9 - 1 9 1 4 ) and Japanese ( 1 9 1 4 - 4 4 ) colonial officials, whose fear of "public health" contamination parallels the Belauans' fear of spiritual contamination caused by the presence of death. Immediately after a death many different groups spring quickly into coordinated yet seemingly undirected action. Close female kin who happen to be living nearby gather at the house of the deceased and attend to the intimate details of preparing the body for burial.