Glasman

[Mesulam Aisoli]

"glasman" could be referred to a spy who used "kampas" binoculars in the
"hausglas" during second world war. Japanese appointed "sandiri" along the
coast - line in the New Guinea Islands, not "glasman". While local coast
watchers by Americans and Australians were known as "spaiman" also using
"kampas" or "glas"

Mesulam Aisoli

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> From: 	BURTON John[SMTP:john.burton at tsra.gov.au]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, 3 April 2002 2:06pm
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> Subject: 	Glasman
> 
> Funnily enough I was also reading Lattas at Easter.
> 
> glasman:
> "It is no accident that the Melanesian Pidgin word for shaman is _glasman_
> (glass-man), for the shaman uses his visions and dreams like the _glas_
> (glass, i.e. spy-glass of field glasses) of the white man to bring what is
> distanbt close, to disclose that which is removed or cannot be seen."
> 
> Source: Lattas, A. 2000 'Telephones, cameras and technology in West New
> Britain cargo cults.' Oceania 70: 325-344
> 
> I add _tu ai man_ to this in the web site. Not everyone uses _glasman_.
> The
> comparison with field glasses does not sit with me perfectly, as
> binoculars
> are _kompas_, but the drift of it is entirely correct. Personally, I would
> make a comparison with _aiglas_. You put these on to see what you can't
> see
> otherwise.
> 
> Thomas - you didn't get the most important of all: "all Kaliai cargo cults
> called themselves a _stori_" (p. 343, and Lattas "Cultures of secrecy",
> 1998).
> 
> Lattas also uses the words _netif_  and _kamerim_, to photograph, in the
> same article. Any takers?
> 
> John Burton
>