Trobriand Tales Kwanebuyee Kilivila

Author : Sergio Jarillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 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

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 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.

Author : Barbara Senft,Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 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.

Author : Annette B. Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 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

Author : Mark S. Mosko
Publisher : Hau
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0997367563

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Ways of Baloma by Mark S. Mosko Pdf

Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on extended fieldwork at Omarakana village--home of the Tabalu "Paramount Chief"--Mark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between the mirror worlds that baloma and humans inhabit. Informed by a synthesis of Strathern's model of "dividual personhood" and L vy-Bruhl's theory of "participation," Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology's other leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of "life" (momova) and "death" (kaliga) strikes at the nexus of anthropology's received wisdom, and Ways of Baloma will inevitably lead practitioners and students to reflect anew on the discipline's multifold theories of personhood, ritual agency, and sociality.

Author : Annette B. Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292790198

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Women of Value, Men of Renown by Annette B. Weiner Pdf

This study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, makes an interesting comparison with the work of pioneer ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, who conducted his seminal research there between 1915 and 1918. While Malinowski and others have focused on men, dismissing "women's work" as unimportant, Weiner shows that women play a vital role in Trobriand society.

Author : Lissant Bolton,Nicholas Thomas,Elizabeth Bonshek,Julie Adams,Ben Burt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art, Melanesian
ISBN : 0714125962

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Melanesia by Lissant Bolton,Nicholas Thomas,Elizabeth Bonshek,Julie Adams,Ben Burt Pdf

The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific.

Author : Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti
Publisher : Department of Linguistics Rese Udies Australian National
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X006035460

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Kitawa Oral Poetry by Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Bonshek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1907774394

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Tikopia Collected by Elizabeth Bonshek Pdf

During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This book takes the collection he made as its subject, and explores how through its acquisition, Firth ceased to be a stranger and became a respected figure incorporated into Tikopia society. The objects were originally viewed by Firth as data in a scientific record of a culture, and evidence challenging the belief that complex economic transactions could only take place in a recognizable market economy. Elizabeth Bonshek, however, revisits the collection's documentation and the ethnography of Tikopia with a different intent in mind: to highlight the social relations the collecting process illuminates and to acknowledge Tikopia voices, past and present. She argues that Firth downplayed the impact of contact with outsiders - whalers, traders and missionaries calling for the abandonment of the Work of the Gods - yet this context is vital for understanding why local people actively contributed to his collecting and research. She follows the life of the collection after leaving the island in institutions that attributed different meanings to its significance, in a failed repatriation request and in a new role in the transmission of 'cultural heritage' along with Firth's writings. She concludes that Firth's exchanges of objects with other high-ranking men were culturally appropriate to the social values dominant in that time and place. Indeed, she suggests that while Firth was acquiring Tikopia artefacts, the Tikopia were perhaps acquiring him. On what ethical and economic terms does an anthropologist acquire other people's things? Collecting Tikopia deftly applies the insights of contemporary material culture studies to a historically important case. Bonshek coaxes ethnographic documents and museum artefacts to reveal how objects both materialize cultural identities over time and mediate social relations across worlds of difference. Professor Robert Foster, University of Rochester, President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Richly supported by documentation this skilful and insightful analysis reveals the complexity of cross-cultural interactions and highlights important concerns for the interpretation and management of cultural heritage in museum 'treasure places' worldwide. Dr Robin Torrence, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Anthropology Research, Australian Museum.

Author : Gunter Senft,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207791

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Culture and Language Use by Gunter Senft,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, culture is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today."

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004260450

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Governing New Guinea by Anonim Pdf

This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences in governing their country. Having been in active service until their retirement in the early 1990s their oral histories allow for a complete recounting of political and administrative transformations under the Indonesian governance of Irian Jaya/Papua.

Author : Porer Nombo,James Leach
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781921666018

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Reite Plants by Porer Nombo,James Leach Pdf

Reite Plants is a documentation and discussion of the uses of plants by speakers of the Nekgini language, a people who reside in the hinterland of the Rai Coast in northern Papua New Guinea. High quality images and detailed information about traditional customary practices using plants provide a unique entry into understanding Nekgini social and cultural life. The book contains a discussion of the ownership of plant knowledge in the context of both local and contemporary global trends. As a dual language, co-authored text, the book is a unique contribution to the ethnobotany and anthropology of Melanesia. Reite Plants represents the product of a long term collaborative work between the authors.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

Author : Roslyn Poignant,Axel Poignant
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0642106657

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Encounter at Nagalarramba by Roslyn Poignant,Axel Poignant Pdf

Photographic essay of photographer Axel Poignant's (1906-86) 1952 expedition to the Liverpool River in Arnhem Land.