[Mihalic] kam man, kam meri, kam lain

[Courtney Handman]

In the Yupno area (Huon-Finisterre mountains on the Madang-
Morobe border) I've been hearing 'kam lain' to refer to 
clans that came after the "original" clan to the area.  (I 
put this in quotes since most clans argue that they were 
first, others were the 'kam lain.')  

I did not hear kam man/meri/lain where I was working 
previously, at the other end of Morobe in the Waria Valley, 
but since everyone there recognizes themselves as migrants 
from the Morobe coast, it probably wouldn't be very 
informative to say that everyone was a kam man/meri/lain.

Courtney Handman 
Graduate Student
Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics
University of Chicago