Author: Ulli BeierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Sun and Moon in Papua New Guinea Folklore
Author: Ulli BeierSun and Moon in Papua New Guinea Folklore
Author: Ulli BeierTales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Gunter SenftPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027268266
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
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.
Moon Legend
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780869010365
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.
Through Folklore to Literature
Author: International Board on Books for Young People. Australian National SectionPublisher: Sydney : IBBY Australia Publications
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Lezingen van de Australische IBBY-sectie 1978, waarbij de nadruk ligt op sprookjes, volksverhalen en Australische jeugdliteratuur
Islam and Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea
Author: Scott FlowerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317680847
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Scholars of religion and policy makers may be surprised at the changes occurring on the second largest island of the world that straddles one of the most Christianised and least Christianised areas of the world. This book provides an accurate and deeper understanding of the nature of Islam in Papua New Guinea, and determines the causes and processes of recent growth in the country’s Muslim population. Combining ethnographic, sociological and historical approaches to understanding Islam’s growth in Papua New Guinea, the book uses extensive fieldwork, interviews and archival records to look at the establishment, institutionalization and growth of Islam in a country that is predominantly Christian. It analyses the causes and processes of conversion, and presents a new analytical approach that could be used as a basis for analysing Islamic conversions in other parts of the world. Presenting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Islamic conversion thorough the examination of the causes and process of Islamic conversion in Papua New Guinea, the book is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Religion, Islamic Studies and Cultural Studies.
Dictionary 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.
Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Author: Herman C. KempPublisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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.