Jadran Mimica is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls: An Essay on the Yagwoia "Womba" Complex, also published by HAU.

• AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsA Note on OrthographyIntroductionChapter 1. The Yagwoia life-world and its MythopoeiaChapter 2. Narrative AccountsChapter 3. The Qualities of the Sun^MoonChapter 4. The Scabies SpellChapter 5. Elucidation of the luno-solar liquidityAppendix: On Imacoqwa, Imacipu, and Omalyce

"Imacoqwa’s Arrow offers a major contribution to philosophy, ethnolinguistics, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology. A lifetime of ethnographic study of the Yagwoia reveals the generative mythopoetic structures underpinning a full range of human practices. Mimica’s previous analysis of indigenous mathematical systems is expanded to the procreative conjugations of language. Turning away from the formalization of phonology and grammar, Mimica analyses how the sun and the moon, male and female, hot and cold, inhabit the combinatory creative practices of existence. The cosmos and the landscape are shown to be embodied—procreative sexual—realities that inhabit and generate human bodies. The equilibrium, disequilibrium, and combinatory possibilities of sexualized binary realities engender the illnesses and well-being of the body just as much as they engender plenitude, loss, and creation within language and mathematics."

Jadran Mimica is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls: An Essay on the Yagwoia "Womba" Complex, also published by HAU.

• AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsA Note on OrthographyIntroductionChapter 1. The Yagwoia life-world and its MythopoeiaChapter 2. Narrative AccountsChapter 3. The Qualities of the Sun^MoonChapter 4. The Scabies SpellChapter 5. Elucidation of the luno-solar liquidityAppendix: On Imacoqwa, Imacipu, and Omalyce

"Imacoqwa’s Arrow offers a major contribution to philosophy, ethnolinguistics, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology. A lifetime of ethnographic study of the Yagwoia reveals the generative mythopoetic structures underpinning a full range of human practices. Mimica’s previous analysis of indigenous mathematical systems is expanded to the procreative conjugations of language. Turning away from the formalization of phonology and grammar, Mimica analyses how the sun and the moon, male and female, hot and cold, inhabit the combinatory creative practices of existence. The cosmos and the landscape are shown to be embodied—procreative sexual—realities that inhabit and generate human bodies. The equilibrium, disequilibrium, and combinatory possibilities of sexualized binary realities engender the illnesses and well-being of the body just as much as they engender plenitude, loss, and creation within language and mathematics."

Jadran Mimica is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls: An Essay on the Yagwoia "Womba" Complex, also published by HAU.

• AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsA Note on OrthographyIntroductionChapter 1. The Yagwoia life-world and its MythopoeiaChapter 2. Narrative AccountsChapter 3. The Qualities of the Sun^MoonChapter 4. The Scabies SpellChapter 5. Elucidation of the luno-solar liquidityAppendix: On Imacoqwa, Imacipu, and Omalyce

"Imacoqwa’s Arrow offers a major contribution to philosophy, ethnolinguistics, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology. A lifetime of ethnographic study of the Yagwoia reveals the generative mythopoetic structures underpinning a full range of human practices. Mimica’s previous analysis of indigenous mathematical systems is expanded to the procreative conjugations of language. Turning away from the formalization of phonology and grammar, Mimica analyses how the sun and the moon, male and female, hot and cold, inhabit the combinatory creative practices of existence. The cosmos and the landscape are shown to be embodied—procreative sexual—realities that inhabit and generate human bodies. The equilibrium, disequilibrium, and combinatory possibilities of sexualized binary realities engender the illnesses and well-being of the body just as much as they engender plenitude, loss, and creation within language and mathematics."