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Author :Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti Publisher :Department of Linguistics Rese Udies Australian National ISBN 13 : Total Pages :440 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis Kitawa Oral Poetry by : Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti
Download or read book Kitawa Oral Poetry written by Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti and published by Department of Linguistics Rese Udies Australian National. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti Publisher :Department of Linguistics Rese Udies Australian National ISBN 13 : Total Pages :446 pages Book Rating :4.X/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Kitawa Oral Poetry by : Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti
Download or read book Kitawa Oral Poetry written by Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti and published by Department of Linguistics Rese Udies Australian National. This book was released on 1996 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives by : Jonathan L. Ready
Download or read book The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives written by Jonathan L. Ready and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions
Book Synopsis The Future of the Past by : Alexander Stille
Download or read book The Future of the Past written by Alexander Stille and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This paradox is central to our age. We use the Internet to access and assess infinite amounts of information--but understand less and less of its historical context. Globalization may eventually benefit countries around the world; it will also, almost certainly, lead to the disappearance of hundreds of regional dialects, languages, and whole societies. In The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille takes us on a tour of the past as it exists today and weighs its prospects for tomorrow, from China to Somalia to Washington, D.C. Through incisive portraits of their protagonists, he describes high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have lost more information in the information age than ever before; an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Wherever it takes him, Stille explores not just the past, but our ideas about the past, how they are changing--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.
Download or read book Kitawa written by Giancarlo M. Scoditti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania by : Herman C. Kemp
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:
Book Synopsis Expressive Genres and Historical Change by : Andrew Strathern
Download or read book Expressive Genres and Historical Change written by Andrew Strathern and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research conducted in New Guinea, Indonesia, Melanesia and Taiwan, the contributors to this volume focus on how expressive genres such as music and dance are of enduring significance to social organization.
Book Synopsis The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking by : Gunter Senft
Download or read book The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking written by Gunter Senft and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Emplaced Myth written by Alan Rumsey and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and place - an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.
Book Synopsis Gender, Song, and Sensibility by : Pamela J. Stewart
Download or read book Gender, Song, and Sensibility written by Pamela J. Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands but with particular reference to field areas in the western Highlands. Texts and/or translations are from a rich corpus of materials previously unpublished in English. The examples draw the reader into the imaginative world of the people, while the analytical framework sets the discussion firmly into debates within interpretive anthropology. The aim is to re-examine the images of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by revealing the sensuous and emotional modalities of expressive folk genres and their aesthetic qualities. Ideas and practices centered on female spirit entities are shown to be important and pervasive in cult contexts, and these spirits were felt to have a significant influence on relations of courtship, marriage, and reproduction. Both women and men are also shown to have complex expressions of emotional dispositions in the spheres of courting and the choice of marital partners. By entering into these domains, the book modifies earlier analyses that have concentrated on antagonism, behavioral taboos, separation, and domination as themes in gender relations in Highland societies.
Book Synopsis Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea by : Gunter Senft
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 299 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.
Book Synopsis The Tuma Underworld of Love by : Gunter Senft
Download or read book The Tuma Underworld of Love written by Gunter Senft and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands" and "Myth in Primitive Psychology" There he also presented the Trobrianders' belief that a "baloma" can be reborn; he claimed that Trobrianders are unaware of the father's role as genitor. This volume presents a critical review of Malinowski's ethnography of Trobriand eschatology - finally settling the "virgin birth" controversy. It also documents the ritualized and highly poetic "wosi milamala" - the harvest festival songs. They are sung in an archaic variety of Kilivila called "biga baloma" - the baloma language. Malinowski briefly refers to these songs but does not mention that they codify many aspects of Trobriand eschatology. The songs are still sung at specific occasions; however, they are now moribund. With these songs Trobriand eschatology will vanish.
Author :Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Americanos. Congreso Publisher :Univ Santiago de Compostela ISBN 13 :9788497502573 Total Pages :904 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (25 download)
Book Synopsis Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002) by : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Americanos. Congreso
Download or read book Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002) written by Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Americanos. Congreso and published by Univ Santiago de Compostela. This book was released on 2003 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Linguistic Bibliography of the New Guinea Area by : Lois Carrington
Download or read book A Linguistic Bibliography of the New Guinea Area written by Lois Carrington and published by Australian National University. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Linguistics Circle of Canberra Publications by : Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti
Download or read book Linguistics Circle of Canberra Publications written by Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal Languages by : Gunter Senft
Download or read book Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal Languages written by Gunter Senft and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology focuses mainly on endangered Oceanic languages, with articles on Vanuatu by Darrell Tryon and the Marquesas by Gabriele Cablitz, on situations of loss and gain by Ingjerd Hom︠ and on the Kilivila language of the Trobriands by the editor. Nick Thieberger, Peter Wittenburg and Paul Trilsbeek, and David Blundell and colleagues write about aspects of linguistic archiving. Under the rubric of revitalization, Margaret Florey and Michael Ewing write about Maluku, Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh about Australian Aboriginal languages in southeastern Australia, whilst three articles, by Sophie Nock, Diane Johnson and Winifred Crombie concern the revitalization of Maori.
Book Synopsis Kitawa Literary Fragments by : Giancarlo Massimo Giuseppe Scoditti
Download or read book Kitawa Literary Fragments written by Giancarlo Massimo Giuseppe Scoditti and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nowau oral texts here collected had been recorded by Scoditti during the several years of field-research on Kitawa Is. (Papua New Guinea) devoted mainly to understanding the mental mechanisms followed by the image creators, that is the makers of the kula ceremonial canoes (Scoditti 1990), the poets, the magicians, the female and male singers who perform a poetic text orally written by a poet upon an oral score composed by a musician (Scoditti 1996). With these early works, Scoditti identified within Kitawa culture a clear distinction between author and performer-interpreter of a given oral text, be it a verbal and a non-verbal one, a distinction that has called into question the hypothesis that within a culture that does not know, or does not use, any form of phonetic writing, a text would be composed at the time of its performance, so composition and performance would coincide.
