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Author : Bo Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573060844
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Pacific Island Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of forty-three traditional and historical stories from the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia.
Author : Maori Princess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Tales From Melanesia written by Maori Princess and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in letter form to the editor who more or less published it as is after formatting. It is a compilation of riveting stories of a young girl in a savage land.
Author : Bo Flood
Publisher : Bess PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781573061032
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Teacher's Guide, Pacific Island Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess PressInc. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people.
Author : Lamont Lindstrom
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824878957
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Cargo Cult written by Lamont Lindstrom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive? Of all the stories spun about the island peoples of Melanesia, tales of cargo cult are among the most fascinating. The term cargo cult, Lamont Lindstrom contends, is one of anthropology's most successful conceptual offspring. Like culture, worldview and ethnicity, its usage has steadily proliferated, migrating into popular culture where today it is used to describe an astonishing roll-call of people. It's history makes for lively and compelling reading. The cargo cult story, Lindstrom shows, is more significant than it at first appears, for it recapitulates in summary form three generations of anthropological theory and Pacific studies. Although anthropologists' enthusiasm for the notion of cargo cult has waned, it now colors outsiders' understanding of Melanesian culture, and even Melanesians' perceptions of themselves. The repercussions for contemporary Islanders are significant: leaders of more than one political movement have felt the need to deny that they are any kind of cargo cultist. Of particular interest to this history is Lindstom's argument that accounts of cargo cult are at heart tragedies of thwarted desire, melancholy anticipation and crazy unrequited love. He makes a convincing case that these stories expose powerful Western scenarios of desire itself—giving cargo cult its combined titillation of the fascinating exotic and the comfortably familiar.
Author : Regis Stella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195536300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Moments in Melanesia written by Regis Stella and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moments in Melanesia is a collection of short stories written by Melanesian writers. The book aims to encourage students to enjoy reading, to learn about the world around them and to gain a better understanding of the value of literature.Written from various perspectives and in different and contrasting styles, the writers deal with a wide range of social and personal issues - marriage, adolescence, isolation, revenge and crime.It is hoped that by bringing these stories before a new, large, young audience, these stories will help foster the writing of more stories from Melanesia - stories that deal with Melanesian realities and dreams and give voice to more Melanesian moments.
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ISBN 13 : 9789830632759
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Melanesia written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Henry Codrington
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230295855
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Melanesians; Studies in Their Anthropology and Folk-Lore written by Robert Henry Codrington and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. STORIES. The native Stories or Folk-tales which follow are all of them, with the exception of the first, translated from the manuscripts written for me by natives of the various islands in which the stories are told. The first example was written down by the Rev. A. Penny at Florida, in the native language as he heard the story told. The translation is as accurate and literal in each case as I could make it; the detailed prolixity of a native narrative is very characteristic; and it is possible that, with, the varying quality of the story-telling of the individual writers, there may appear something also of the different narrative style of the eastern and western groups of these islands of Melanesia. The value of truly native stories is beyond all question; they exhibit native life in the particular details which come in the course of the narrative, they are full of the conceptions which the native people entertain about the world around them, they show the native mind active in fancy and imagination, and they form a rich store of subjects for comparison with the folk-tales of other parts of the world. To the question how far those who tell and those who hear these stories believe them to be true it is hard to give an answer. To some extent they are believed, and to a great extent they are treated as flights of fancy. A story-teller warming to his subject, and with all that he relates pictured in his mind, very likely believes it all as he tells the tale; a story will be quoted to explain or confirm some statement, and would have little effect if not brought forth as true; a story, because it has always been told and heard, is not open to much doubt or criticism. But it may be safely said that to the natives a story is not a...
Author : Lawrence McCane
Publisher : Lawrence McCane
ISBN 13 : 9980854219
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Melanesian Stories written by Lawrence McCane and published by Lawrence McCane. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marist Brothers are a group of committed men whose mission is education, especially of the most needy students. Inspired by their founder's vision which encompassed the entire world, Brothers today reach out to all, wherever they are, with hearts that know no bounds. This book brings to life the stories of Marist Brothers' educational work in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. From uncertain nineteenth century beginnings, through the turmoil of the Second World War, the Bougainville Crisis and the Solomon Island Ethnic Tensions, the story of the coming of age of an authentic Marist Melanesian Brotherhood unfolds in these pages.
Author : Reilly Ridgell
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573060011
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Pacific Nations and Territories written by Reilly Ridgell and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a background in Pacific geography, culture, and history, plus an overview of the different Pacific island groups.
Author : John Henry Macartney Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The South Seas (Melanesia) written by John Henry Macartney Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 192681231X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Last Heathen written by Charles Montgomery and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1892, the Bishop of Tasmania set sail for Melanesia with the intent of rescuing islanders from lives of fear, black magic and cannibalism. Over 100 years later, his great grandson, Charles Montgomery, followed the bishop’s route through the South Pacific, seeking out the spirits and myths his missionary forebear had sought to destroy. Montgomery explored remote shores where gospel and empire never took hold. He rubbed shoulders with barefoot preachers, witch doctors and gun-toting rebels, only to discover that the pagan spirits were more tenacious than the missionaries had imagined. Melanesians had stirred Jesus and Mary into an already spicy broth of ancestor worship, ghosts, shark gods and magic. Through confrontations with a bizarre cast of characters—the randy ethnographer, the soft-talking assassin, the leper prophet—the journey becomes a debate on the nature of magic, myth and faith, and a metaphor for the transforming power of story. The Last Heathen marks the debut of an exciting young writer who charts his adventures with passion, insight and grace.
Author : John Terrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369565
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Prehistory in the Pacific Islands written by John Terrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.
Author : Robert Henry Codrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Melanesians written by Robert Henry Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bo Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573061247
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Micronesian Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells sixty-eight traditional legends of the islands, including creation myths and tales of duhendes, dancing trickster elves of the jungle.
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Myths from Melanesia and Indonesia written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bo Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573060783
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Pacific Island Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people. --amazon.com.
Author : Daniel A. Kelin
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573061414
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Marshall Islands Legends and Stories written by Daniel A. Kelin and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving the qualities of oral storytelling - in fifty stories recorded from eighteen storytellers on eight islands and atolls - the tales in this collection relay the importance of traditional Marshallese values and customs. The collection includes profiles of the storytellers, a glossary, and a pronunciation guide.
