Author: Thomas Edward DuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hiri Motu language
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Police Motu
Author: Thomas Edward DuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hiri Motu language
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Hiri
Author: Robert John SkellyPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824853662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the late 1800s, missionaries and government officials stationed along the south coast of Papua New Guinea began to observe large fleets of indigenous Motu sailing ships coming and going out of present-day Port Moresby. Each year the women of nearby villages manufactured tens of thousands of clay pots to be loaded onto the ships that men built, then sailed with their cargos westward some 400 kilometers. Upon arrival at prearranged destination-villages in distant lands to the west—lands populated by peoples speaking foreign languages—the pots together with the shell valuables were exchanged for hundreds of tons of sago flour. While in those villages, the men dismantled their ships and built them anew, literally from the bottom up, because trees of sufficient size to make large sailing ships did not grow in the landscapes of their home villages. Both the Motu of the Port Moresby region and sago producers of the Gulf of Papua to the west knew of these ventures as hiri. Through first-hand archaeological research at recipient villages, archaeologists Robert Skelly and Bruno David investigate the origins of this indigenous maritime trade system, from ancient roots in the famed Lapita culture of three thousand years ago up to the present. They offer details from archaeological digs that led them from the first ceramics of the south coast of Papua New Guinea to pottery with unmistakable signs of the ethnographic hiri. Along the south coast of Papua New Guinea, the maritime endeavor that is the hiri is revealed in historical perspective, including stories of its colonial past.
New Guinea and Neighboring Areas
Author: Stephen Adolphe WurmPublisher: Hague ; New York : Mouton
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
Author: William A. FoleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521286213
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. Less than a quarter of the individual languages have yet been adequately documented, and in this sense William Foley's book might be considered premature. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. In addition, the processes of linguistic diffusion are present in New Guinea to an extent probably paralleled elsewhere on the globe. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.
The Melanesians of British New Guinea
Author: Charles Gabriel SeligmanPublisher: Cambridge, U. P
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) was a British ethnographer who conducted field research in New Guinea, Sarawak, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), and Sudan. Trained as a medical doctor, in 1898 he joined an expedition organized by Cambridge University to the Torres Strait, the body of water that separates the island of New Guinea from Australia. The purpose of the expedition was to document the cultures of the Torres Strait islanders, which were rapidly disappearing under the influence of colonization. In 1904, Seligman was one of three members of the Cooke Daniels Ethnographic Expedition to British New Guinea, funded by Denver, Colorado department store owner William Cooke Daniels. The Melanesians of British New Guinea contains a detailed record of much of Seligman's anthropological research conducted during the expedition. Seligman's findings demonstrated the striking physical and cultural differences between the western Papuans and his main preoccupation, their eastern neighbors, who had been more influenced by Melanesian immigration. The book established Seligman's reputation as an anthropologist, and remains an important source for the study of the traditional culture of the peoples of present-day Papua New Guinea. The book includes photographs, drawings, maps, and a glossary of indigenous terms.
A Study of Emotions in the Motu People of Papua New Guinea
Author: Joy Claire ReymondPublisher:
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Category : Emotions
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea
Author: Thomas RichardsPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178491505X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The first volume of the Caution Bay monographs is designed to introduce the goals of the Caution Bay project, the nature and scope of the investigations and the cultural and natural setting of the study area.
Picturesque New Guinea
Author: J. W. LindtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Buka Helaga
Author: PNG Bible Translation AssociationPublisher: Digital Bible Society
ISBN: 1531302858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2587
Book Description
Nupela Testamen long tokples Hiri Motu long Niugini
The Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea
Author: Patricia MayPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824823443
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea ever produced. The authors have made a thorough analysis of pottery-making throughout Papua New Guinea based on eight years of field work. They proffer a first-hand account of clay preparation, pottery formation, and firing techniques, interwoven with information on the functions of pottery and the various approaches to decoration.