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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.
LITERACY AND ORALITY the South Pacific experience
Author | : Ruth Finnegan |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780244948610 |
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The doyen multi-award anthropologist Ruth Finnegan examines the age-old issues of the significance of orality and literacy. A unique, authoritative and readable account on an absolutely fascinating area. Riveting. Not to be missed. Read more in Ruth's fabulous series SWHC series THE SECRET WAYS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATING in the scintillating Callender Press collection.
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.
An Anthology of Gilbertese Oral Tradition
Author | : Honor C. Maude,Henry E. Maude |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:900711614 |
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An Anthology of Gilbertese Oral Tradition
Author | : Honor C. Maude,Henry Evans Maude |
Publsiher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0646172654 |
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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.
The Edge of Memory
Author | : Patrick Nunn |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781472943279 |
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In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But before humans were writing down their knowledge, they were telling it to each other in the form of stories. The Edge of Memory celebrates the predecessor of written information – the spoken word, tales from our ancestors that have been passed down, transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next. Among the most extensive and best-analysed of these stories are from native Australian cultures. These stories conveyed both practical information and recorded history, describing a lost landscape, often featuring tales of flooding and submergence. These folk traditions are increasingly supported by hard science. Geologists are starting to corroborate the tales through study of climatic data, sediments and land forms; the evidence was there in the stories, but until recently, nobody was listening. In this book, Patrick Nunn unravels the importance of these tales, exploring the science behind folk history from various places – including northwest Europe and India – and what it can tell us about environmental phenomena, from coastal drowning to volcanic eruptions. These stories of real events were passed across the generations, and over thousands of years, and they have broad implications for our understanding of how human societies have developed through the millennia, and ultimately how we respond collectively to changes in climate, our surroundings and the environment we live in.
Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Author | : Herman C. Kemp |
Publsiher | : Yayasan Obor Indonesia |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9794614831 |
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