A Motif Index Of Traditional Polynesian Narratives

Author : Bacil F. Kirtley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824884079

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A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives by Bacil F. Kirtley Pdf

This reference work analyzes and classifies the story themes of Polynesian myths, tales, and legends according to an internationally employed system developed by Stith Thompson in his Motif Index of Folk-Literature ( 1955-1958). Thousands of tales, including those from almost all of the major original collections from the Polynesian area, have been examined and their thematic contents cataloged in this work. In his introduction, the author explains the concept of the motif as a basis for cataloging. He quotes from Professor Thompson's definition of a motif: “the smallest element in a tale having the power to persist in tradition,” for example, gods, marvelous creatures, magic objects, and certain kinds of incidents. The author believes “the function of an index of motifs is to cite bibliographical sources of narratives containing these viable (often irreducible) story elements, and thus to provide the investigator of specific story ideas with comparative Information.” The present work is an attempt to survey thoroughly the totality of Polynesian oral tradition and to indicate the distribution and relationships of narrative materials. Not since the publication of Roland B. Dixon's work on Oceanic mythology in 1916 has this been attempted. This index will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone doing research in Oceanic ethnology and folklore.

Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317459385

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Storytelling by Josepha Sherman Pdf

Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.

Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725221871

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Finding Is the First Act by John Dominic Crossan Pdf

An imaginative and illuminating study, Finding Is the First Act places historical thinking in creative tension with literary appreciation. The structures of Jesus's parable of the hidden treasure (Matt 13:44) are examined by mapping its plot options (finding, acting, buying) in view of other Jewish treasure stories and the vast array of treasure plots in world folklore. Startling differences emerge in the plot options chosen by Jesus that point to a new understanding of the directive to give up all one has for the Kingdom of God. "Why Jesus' treasure parable? For three reasons that I am aware of. First, . . . the story has always fascinated me. . . . Second, in recent work on parables there has often been a tendency to concentrate especially on the longer parables of Jesus. I wanted deliberately to move in theopposite direction and to give full emphasis to a very short parable . . . . Third, this particular parable, in contrast, for example, to that of The Mustard Seed, does not furnish much grist for the diachronic mill of biblical studies. I was deliberately choosing an item which, in isolation from its Matthean context, could hardly sustain a monograph study along the standard lines of tradition criticism." --from the Preface

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268266

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Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea by Gunter Senft Pdf

This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are presented in morpheme-interlinear transcriptions with first textlinguistic analyses and cultural background information necessary to fully understand them. A summarizing comparative analysis of the texts from a psycholinguistic, anthropological linguistic and philological point of view discusses the underlying schemata of the stories, the means narrators use to structure them, their structural complexity and their cultural specificity.

Author : Herman C. Kemp
Publisher : Yayasan Obor Indonesia
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9794614831

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Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania by Herman C. Kemp Pdf

Author : John M. Weeks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429712982

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Introduction To Library Research In Anthropology by John M. Weeks Pdf

This book is an introduction to library research in anthropology written primarily for the undergraduate student about to begin a research project. It contains a summary description of the type of resource being discussed and its potential use in a research project.

Author : Thomas H. Slone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780971412712

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One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales from 1986-1997, indices, glossary, references and maps by Thomas H. Slone Pdf

A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.

Author : Keith Chambers,Anne Chambers
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478608295

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Unity of Heart by Keith Chambers,Anne Chambers Pdf

Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atolls limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes. Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the communitys intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society.

Author : Robert D. Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810867727

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Historical Dictionary of Polynesia by Robert D. Craig Pdf

The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast. Thousands of islands are scattered throughout this area, most of which are currently included in one of the modern island states of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present. Appendixes of the major islands and atolls within Polynesia, the rulers and administrators of the 13 major island states, and basic demographic information of those states are also included.

Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973-08-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0422741906

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Ibss: Anthropology: 1971 by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation Pdf

First published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ruth M. Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3969 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544115

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Ruth M. Stone Pdf

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume reference work, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world in nine volumes. The tenth volume houses reference tools and descriptive information about the encyclopedia’s structure, criteria for inclusion and other information specific to the field of ethnomusicology. An award-winning reference, its contributions are from top researchers around the world who were active in fieldwork and from key institutions with programs in ethnomusicology. GEWM has become a familiar acronym, and it remains highly revered for its scholarship, uncontested in being the sole encompassing reference work with a broad survey of world music. More than 9,000 pages, with musical illustrations, photographs and drawings, it is accompanied by 300+ audio examples.

Author : Robert Dean Craig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313069468

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Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology by Robert Dean Craig Pdf

Prior to 1500 A.D. the Polynesians were the most widely spread people on earth, having settled an area of the Pacific, the Polynesian Triangle, twice the size of the United States. In this first reference guide to the mythology of these Vikings of the Pacific, Craig reviews Polynesian legends, stories, gods, goddesses, and heroes in hundreds of alphabetical entries that succinctly describe both characters and events. His wide-ranging and thorough introduction sets the subject in its geographic, historical, anthropological, and linguistic contexts, offering an illuminating overview of the origin of the Polynesians as a distinct people and tracing their voyages and settlements from Indonesia to Malaysia, Tonga, Samoa, the Marquesas, the various islands of eastern Polynesia, including Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand. The introduction presents fascinating information on Polynesian navigational skills and the voyages themselves, as well as a chart that details the evolution of the thirty Polynesian languages and compares cognates from several of these languages. A simplified pronunciation guide and a selected list of Polynesian dictionaries and/or grammars are provided for those interested in pursuing the richness of the Polynesian languages. This introductory survey gives readers the necessary background to understand the origin, development, and dispersion of the myths throughout the Pacific basin. The Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology is the result of many years of research. The individual entries were gleaned from nearly 300 sources in English, German, French, and Polynesian languages with the majority extracted from a number of primary sources that date generally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The printed source materials for this volume are fully described and listed by geographical group, including Maori, Cook Islands, Tahitian, Marquesan, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Tongan. General collections that retell the Polynesian stories are also surveyed. The entries are alphabetically arranged by major mythological figure; lesser characters can be located in the index. Short bibliographical citations--author, date, and page number--are included at the end of each main entry to direct readers to fuller information contained in the printed sources. An appendix provides valuable supplemental information on Polynesian gods and goddesses. This dictionary is sure to become a basic reference tool for libraries, students, and scholars of Pacific history and culture, as well as for courses in mythology, religion, and philosophy.

Author : William A Lessa,William Armand Lessa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520096150

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More Tales from Ulithi Atoll by William A Lessa,William Armand Lessa Pdf

Author : J.W. Love,Adrienne Kaeppler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544320

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by J.W. Love,Adrienne Kaeppler Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Laura Beres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137556851

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Practising Spirituality by Laura Beres Pdf

The steady increase in economic, social, environmental and political hardships experienced by many around the globe has led, in recent years, to a corresponding growth in the importance ascribed to finding meaning in life, and to addressing the bigger questions. As deliverers of care and assistance to people across many different faiths and cultures whose lives are impacted directly by these hardships, current and future social workers must learn to apply concepts of spirituality in their own professional practice. In this unique and inspiring book, a diverse group of authors draws deeply on their own experiences of spirituality in practice, providing a fascinating and often moving exploration of how meaning is derived in a variety of different contexts. Topics discussed include: - Mindfulness, meditation and the practice of Falun Gong - The interaction between spirituality, social justice and professional practice - The role of spirituality in the provision of palliative care - Indigenous spiritualities, interconnectedness and human-animal bonds - The role of spirituality in providing hospitality and acceptance in practice. Enriched by a wealth of case studies and a strong focus on critical reflection throughout, Practising Spirituality is an important and thought-provoking read for students and practitioners across the full range of health and social care disciplines – from social work and counselling to nursing, youth work and beyond.