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Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea

Author : Barbara Senft,Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264107

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Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea by Barbara Senft,Gunter Senft Pdf

This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education within their `own little community’ until they reach the age of seven years. During this time children enjoy much autonomy and independence. Attempts of parental education are confined to a minimum. However, parents use subtle means to raise their children. Educational ideologies are manifest in narratives and in speeches addressed to children. They provide guidelines for their integration into the Trobrianders’ “balanced society” which is characterized by cooperation and competition. It does not allow individual accumulation of wealth – surplus property gained has to be redistributed – but it values the fame acquired by individuals in competitive rituals. Fame is not regarded as threatening the balance of their society.

Trobriand Tales, Kwanebuyee Kilivila

Author : Sergio Jarillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Folklore
ISBN : OCLC:1393657823

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Trobriand Tales, Kwanebuyee Kilivila by Sergio Jarillo Pdf

Abstract: This volume comprises an edited compilation of traditional oral narratives from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea obtained by Jerry W. Leach from 1970 to 1973, which are held in the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. The narratives encompass key aspects of Trobriand cultural heritage as well as insights into the Kilivila language, regional cosmologies, and past and present social practices. The narratives constitute an elaborate but fragile system of knowledge that is threatened by rapid social change. The book is the culmination of a research project begun in 2011 through the auspices of the Recovering Voices Program at the National Museum of Natural History. Traveling to the Trobriand Islands with copies of the Leach narratives, the editor worked with communities to select the most culturally important and prevalent narratives, 79 of which are presented here. Trobriand communities proposed that those narratives be printed in Kilivila and in English to help preserve traditional knowledge for future generations. Each narrative is categorized in local terms, preceded by details regarding the storytellers and a summary, as well as links to other stories when narratives are related, and many are followed by a list of key words and expressions that are defined in a section on vocabulary. Further explanations and illustrations help clarify and complete the stories, providing examples of traditional objects and techniques as well as their uses

Papua New Guinea Legends

Author : Isei Isei Mathew,Johnbili Tokome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 0729502015

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Papua New Guinea Legends by Isei Isei Mathew,Johnbili Tokome Pdf

Side 1: A tale from the Trobriand Islands told in English of how the tiny fish Pepeyana is saved from the crocodile -- side 2: Music performed by Trobriand islanders.

Imdeduya

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265890

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Imdeduya by Gunter Senft Pdf

This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s intention to marry the girl so famous for her beauty, on his long journey to Imdeduya’s village and on their tragic love story. The texts are compared with each other with a final focus on the clash between orality and scripturality. Contrary to Kasaipwalova’s fixed poetic text, the oral Imdeduya versions reveal the variability characteristic for oral tradition. This variability opens up questions about traditional stability and destabilization of oral literature, especially questions about the changing role of myth – and magic – in the Trobriand Islanders' society which gets more and more integrated into the by now “literal” nation of Papua New Guinea.

Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands

Author : Alan Rumsey,Don Niles
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781921862212

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Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands by Alan Rumsey,Don Niles Pdf

The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and individual styles. Though their existence has previously been noted by researchers working in the Highlands, and some recordings made of them, most of these genres have not been studied in detail until quite recently, mainly because of the challenging range of disciplinary expertise that is required--in anthropology, linguistics, and ethnomusicology. This volume presents a set of interrelated studies by researchers in all of those fields, and by a Papua New Guinea Highlander who has assisted with the research based on his lifelong familiarity with one of the regional genres. The studies presented here (all of them previously unpublished and written especially for this volume) are of groundbreaking significance not only for specialists in Melanesia or the Pacific, but also for readers with a more general interest in comparative poetics, mythology, musicology, or verbal art.

Approaches to Language and Culture

Author : Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110727159

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Approaches to Language and Culture by Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein Pdf

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

The Archaeology of the Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea

Author : Göran Burenhult
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004667877

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The Archaeology of the Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea by Göran Burenhult Pdf

There has been a distinct lack of intensive documentation of the history of the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea, leaving the origins of the people shrouded in myth.

The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea

Author : Annette B. Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39076002771546

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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner Pdf

Book about the social life and customs of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

Language and Materiality

Author : Jillian R. Cavanaugh,Shalini Shankar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107180949

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Language and Materiality by Jillian R. Cavanaugh,Shalini Shankar Pdf

Language and Materiality argues the importance of analyzing language use with an eye toward new materialisms, semiotics, and ideology.

Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra

Author : Steven Feld
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351627

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Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra by Steven Feld Pdf

The distinguished scholar Steven Feld shaped the field of the anthropology of sound and music. In this new work, he looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, including some who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. He describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocentric narrations of jazz history.

Kilivila

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110861846

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Kilivila by Gunter Senft Pdf

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

The Man In The Fairy Tale Isle (Colored Version)

Author : Martin Stummer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783744864862

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The Man In The Fairy Tale Isle (Colored Version) by Martin Stummer Pdf

This is the life story of a man who caused a zoological sensation in the late sixties, being the first and only one who located the extremely rare and endangered Mountain Tapir in the jungles of South America. One of the last great collectors of wildlife and respected in the elite field of zoology, Martin Stummer had lived a dangerous and exciting life among unexplored jungle tribes, encountered bizarre sexual rituals and experienced the magical power of trees and their revelations. At the peak of his career, he gave up wildlife collection and retired to a small tropical island somewhere in the Indo-Pacific Ocean to build his own "fairy tale kingdom." Europeans might have seen him in ARD, ZDF, RTL and many other television stations while being interviewed about his exotic island NAGARAO where strange stories abound.

The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110227994

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The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking by Gunter Senft Pdf

Bronislaw Maliniowski claimed in his monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific that to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a "collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae ... as a corpus inscriptionum, as documents of native mentality". This book finally meets Malinowski's demand. Based on more than 40 months of field research the author presents, documents and illustrates the Trobriand Islanders' own indigenous typology of text categories or genres, covering the spectrum from ditties children chant while spinning a top, to gossip, songs, tales, and myths. The typology is based on Kilivila metalinguistic terms for these genres, and considers the relationship they have with registers or varieties which are also metalinguistically distinguished by the native speakers of this language. Rooted in the 'ethnography of speaking' paradigm and in the 'anthropological linguistics/linguistic anthropology' approach, the book highlights the relevance of genres for researching the role of language, culture and cognition in social interaction, and demonstrates the importance of understanding genres for achieving linguistic and cultural competence. In addition to the data presented in the book, its readers have the opportunity to access the original audio- and video-data presented via the internet on a special website, which mirrors the structure of the book. Thus, the reader can check the transcriptions against the original data recordings. This makes the volume particularly valuable for teaching purposes in (general, Austronesian/ Oceanic, documentary, and anthropological) linguistics and ethnology.

Rose Lives in The Trobriand Islands

Author : Jordan Dean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1925795675

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Rose Lives in The Trobriand Islands by Jordan Dean Pdf

This is Rose. She lives in the Tobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. The I Am PNG series introduces readers to children from all around Papua New Guinea. This is a beautifully illustrated book for 4-8 year old readers. Proceeds from this sale benefit nonprofit organisation Library For All, helping children around the world learn to read.