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Oral Traditions of Anuta A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands
Author | : Richard Feinberg Professor of Anthropology Kent State University |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1998-04-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195355475 |
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Anuta is a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands that has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the end of the twentieth century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific. In Oral Traditions of Anuta, Richard Feinberg offers a telling collection of Anutan historical narratives, including indigenous texts and English translations. This rich, thorough assemblage is the result of a collaborative project between Feinberg and a large cross-section of the Anutan community that developed over a period of twenty-five years. The volume's emphasis is ethnographic, consisting of a number of texts as related by the island's most respected experts in matters of traditional history. Feinberg's annotations, which arm the reader with essential ethnographic and historical contexts, clarify important linguistic and cultural issues that arise from the stories. The texts themselves have important implications for the relationship of oral tradition to history and symbolic structures, and afford new evidence pertinent to Polynesian language sub-grouping. Further, they provide insight into a number of Anutan customs and preoccupations, while also suggesting certain widespread Polynesian practices dating back to the pre-contact and early contact periods.
South Pacific Oral Traditions
Author | : Ruth H. Finnegan,Margaret Orbell |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0253328683 |
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Exploring the oral traditions of the South Pacific, this work demonstrates that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific. It appeals to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, and social organization.
Polynesian Oral Traditions
Author | : Richard Feinberg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 160635339X |
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Anuta, a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands, has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the start of the 21st century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific. In Polynesian Oral Traditions, Richard Feinberg offers a window into this fascinating and relatively unfamiliar culture through a collection of Anutan historical narratives, including indigenous texts and English translations. This rich, thorough assemblage is the result of a 25-year collaboration between Feinberg and a large cross section of the Anutan community. The volume's emphasis is ethnographic, consisting of a number of texts as related by the island's most respected experts in matters of traditional history. The texts themselves have important implications for the relationship of oral tradition to history and symbolic structures, affording new evidence pertinent to Polynesian language subgrouping. Further, they provide insight into a number of Anutan customs and preoccupations, while also suggesting certain widespread Polynesian practices dating back to the precontact and early contact periods. Feinberg's annotations, an essential aspect of this volume, arm the reader with essential ethnographic and historical contexts, clarifying important linguistic and cultural issues that arise from the stories.
A Motif Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives
Author | : Bacil F. Kirtley |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780824884079 |
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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.
Maori Oral Tradition
Author | : Jane McRae |
Publsiher | : Auckland University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781775589082 |
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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.
Return to Culture
Author | : Anna-Leena Siikala,Jukka Siikala |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : IND:30000100613391 |
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Hawaiki the Whence of the Maori
Author | : Stephenson Percy Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Hawaiian language |
ISBN | : UCLA:31158002197613 |
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Oral Tradition in Manihiki
Author | : Kauraka Kauraka |
Publsiher | : Australian Geographic |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : IND:30000000703854 |
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