ABSTRACT
Ambonwari in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea is, with over 400 people, the largest of eight Karawari-speaking villages. Everyone has to find meat in whichever way they can but it is the mastery of different ways of performing the activities of fishing and hunting that becomes habitual and thus characteristic of an individual Ambonwari. Ambonwari do not have a term for any kind of physical body removed from the totality of human existence. The people could say for Ambonwari that their 'body is in the world as the heart is in the organism'. In this chapter the author have concentrated on kay, the term most intimately involved in the conceptualization of life as it is lived in Ambonwari. It was the author intention to emphasize that not only Cartesian dualism of Western philosophical tradition but the concepts of ‘mind’ and ‘body’ themselves are Western inventions.
