ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a specific oral testimony that concentrates on the relatively period; perhaps roughly 50 years immediately before and since Binandere contact with kiawa, the Europeans, in March 1894. It analyses oral sources deriving from genealogy. The chapter shows how little depth there is in recorded Binandere memory in retaining a particular oral history approximately between 1850 and 1950. The problem of images deriving from earlier times and their modem diffusion may be solved by a researcher with an intimate knowledge of oral tradition which makes it possible to distinguish the genuinely old from the new syncretization. The Binandere see the foreigners as entering and damaging their society, while they themselves respond by penetrating the kiawa through the police, and stinging by directing the kiawa against their old enemies. Gewara contrasted the traditional weapons and their effectiveness in the past with introduced items and their power in the changing circumstances.
