Author: P. N. ChakravartiPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Sun and Moon in New Guinea Mythology
Author: P. N. ChakravartiSun and Moon in Papua New Guinea Folklore
Author: Ulli BeierDictionary of Nature Myths
Author: Tamra AndrewsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195136772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this informative volume is a rich introduction to the world of nature as experienced by ancient peoples around the globe. 51 halftones.
The Mythology of All Races ...
Author: Louis Herbert GrayPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea
Author: Michael HirschbichlerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040035590
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date. The book’s aim is twofold: First, it aims to investigate the spirit structures and their associated cultural cosmos in detail. For this purpose, a representative selection of traditional buildings and artworks from different regions of Papua New Guinea is documented and analyzed, and theories for their understanding are formulated. In this course, the author develops a spatial theory of anthropological concepts – such as myths, signs, persons, and rituals. Secondly, this analysis is then situated in the broader context of the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. Transforming the historical spirit structures into models for future-oriented cultural imagination, the consequences for contemporary productions of space and ways of worldmaking in light of existential challenges are traced. The book thus offers more-than-human and more-than-secular concepts for building, art, and worldmaking that are of critical importance in the ongoing Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and adjacent disciplines. Part I of the book was translated from German by Melanie Janet Sindelar.
Moon Legend
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780860310273
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A legend about how the moon fell in love with a young man, but could not marry him, as she was promised to the Sun.
Imdeduya
Author: Gunter SenftPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027265895
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Author: Herman C. KempPublisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea
Author: Ann TurnerPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkably rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The dictionary covers major economic, social, political, and cultural developments, basic geographic information and biographies. With maps.
Oceanic [mythology]
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Author: Roland Burrage DixonPublisher:
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Category : Mythology, Oceanian
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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