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A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives

Author : Bacil F. Kirtley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824884078
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives written by Bacil F. Kirtley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work analyzes and classifies the story themes of Polynesian myths, tales, and legends according to an internationally employed system developed by Stith Thompson in his Motif Index of Folk-Literature ( 1955-1958). Thousands of tales, including those from almost all of the major original collections from the Polynesian area, have been examined and their thematic contents cataloged in this work. In his introduction, the author explains the concept of the motif as a basis for cataloging. He quotes from Professor Thompson's definition of a motif: “the smallest element in a tale having the power to persist in tradition,” for example, gods, marvelous creatures, magic objects, and certain kinds of incidents. The author believes “the function of an index of motifs is to cite bibliographical sources of narratives containing these viable (often irreducible) story elements, and thus to provide the investigator of specific story ideas with comparative Information.” The present work is an attempt to survey thoroughly the totality of Polynesian oral tradition and to indicate the distribution and relationships of narrative materials. Not since the publication of Roland B. Dixon's work on Oceanic mythology in 1916 has this been attempted. This index will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone doing research in Oceanic ethnology and folklore.

A motif-index of traditional Polynesian narratives

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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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A Motif-index of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Narratives

Author : Bacil F. Kirtley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Storytelling

Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459385
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling written by Josepha Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.

A Motif-index of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Narratives

Author : Bacil Flemming Kirtley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Motif-index of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Narratives written by Bacil Flemming Kirtley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

“A” Motif-index of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Narratives

Author : Bacil Flemming Kirtley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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A Companion to Folklore

Author : Regina F. Bendix
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118863143
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Folklore by : Regina F. Bendix

Download or read book A Companion to Folklore written by Regina F. Bendix and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches developed to understand the phenomena of folklore Considers folklore in the context of multi-disciplinary topics that include poetics, performance, religious practice, myth, ritual and symbol, oral textuality, history, law, politics and power as well as the social base of folklore Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

Finding Is the First Act

Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172522187X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Finding Is the First Act written by John Dominic Crossan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative and illuminating study, Finding Is the First Act places historical thinking in creative tension with literary appreciation. The structures of Jesus's parable of the hidden treasure (Matt 13:44) are examined by mapping its plot options (finding, acting, buying) in view of other Jewish treasure stories and the vast array of treasure plots in world folklore. Startling differences emerge in the plot options chosen by Jesus that point to a new understanding of the directive to give up all one has for the Kingdom of God. "Why Jesus' treasure parable? For three reasons that I am aware of. First, . . . the story has always fascinated me. . . . Second, in recent work on parables there has often been a tendency to concentrate especially on the longer parables of Jesus. I wanted deliberately to move in theopposite direction and to give full emphasis to a very short parable . . . . Third, this particular parable, in contrast, for example, to that of The Mustard Seed, does not furnish much grist for the diachronic mill of biblical studies. I was deliberately choosing an item which, in isolation from its Matthean context, could hardly sustain a monograph study along the standard lines of tradition criticism." --from the Preface

Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268266
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea written by Gunter Senft and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania

Author : Herman C. Kemp
Publisher : Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN 13 : 9789794614839
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania written by Herman C. Kemp and published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales from 1986-1997, indices, glossary, references and maps

Author : Thomas H. Slone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0971412715
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales from 1986-1997, indices, glossary, references and maps by : Thomas H. Slone

Download or read book One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales from 1986-1997, indices, glossary, references and maps written by Thomas H. Slone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.

Introduction To Library Research In Anthropology

Author : John M. Weeks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429712987
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Introduction To Library Research In Anthropology written by John M. Weeks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to library research in anthropology written primarily for the undergraduate student about to begin a research project. It contains a summary description of the type of resource being discussed and its potential use in a research project.

Unity of Heart

Author : Keith Chambers
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478608293
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Unity of Heart written by Keith Chambers and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2000-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atolls limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes. Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the communitys intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society.

Historical Dictionary of Polynesia

Author : Robert D. Craig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810867729
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Polynesia written by Robert D. Craig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast. Thousands of islands are scattered throughout this area, most of which are currently included in one of the modern island states of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present. Appendixes of the major islands and atolls within Polynesia, the rulers and administrators of the 13 major island states, and basic demographic information of those states are also included.

Ibss: Anthropology: 1971

Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780422741903
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Ibss: Anthropology: 1971 written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1973-08-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Maori Oral Tradition

Author : Jane McRae
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775589080
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Maori Oral Tradition written by Jane McRae and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maori oral tradition is the rich, poetic record of the past handed down by voice over generations through whakapapa, whakatauki, korero and waiata. In genealogies and sayings, histories, stories and songs, Maori tell of ‘te ao tawhito' or the old world: the gods, the migration of the Polynesian ancestors from Hawaiki and life here in Aotearoa. A voice from the past, today this remarkable record underpins the speeches, songs and prayers performed on marae and the teaching of tribal genealogies and histories. Indeed, the oral tradition underpins Maori culture itself. This book introduces readers to the distinctive oral style and language of the traditional compositions, acknowledges the skills of the composers of old and explores the meaning of their striking imagery and figurative language. And it shows how nga korero tuku iho – the inherited words – can be a deep well of knowledge about the way of life, wisdom and thinking of the Maori ancestors.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Author : Ruth M. Stone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135154411X
Total Pages : 3969 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Ruth M. Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 3969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume reference work, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world in nine volumes. The tenth volume houses reference tools and descriptive information about the encyclopedia’s structure, criteria for inclusion and other information specific to the field of ethnomusicology. An award-winning reference, its contributions are from top researchers around the world who were active in fieldwork and from key institutions with programs in ethnomusicology. GEWM has become a familiar acronym, and it remains highly revered for its scholarship, uncontested in being the sole encompassing reference work with a broad survey of world music. More than 9,000 pages, with musical illustrations, photographs and drawings, it is accompanied by 300+ audio examples.