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Imdeduya : variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand islands of Papua New Guinea /

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This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova's English poem "Sail the Midnight Sun". This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Senft, Gunter, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:Culture and Language Use (CLU) studies in anthropological linguistics, 20
Subjects:
Legends > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Folklore.
Love > Mythology > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Hate > Mythology > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Anthropological linguistics > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Légendes > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles.
Trobriand, Îles (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Folklore.
Haine > Mythologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles.
Ethnolinguistique > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Trobriand, Îles.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Anthropological linguistics
Legends
Love > Mythology
Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands
Austronesian languages
Narrative studies
Linguistics
Anthropology
Electronic books.
Folklore
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Imdeduya
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gerubara's version of Imdeduya
  • a "'kukwanebu tommwaya tokunabogwa"'
  • a story of the old men in former times
  • 3. Mokopai's version of Imdeduya
  • the "'liliu Imdeduya mokwita'"
  • the real Imdeduya myth
  • 4. Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth documented by Jerry Leach in annotated English glosses as "A Kula folktale from Kiriwina"
  • IMDEDUYA
  • 5. John Kasaipwalova's poem "Sail the Midnight Sun"
  • 5.1 The poem
  • 5.2 A summary of the poem's plot and a few remarks on its structure
  • 6. How do the five Imdeduya texts differ from each other and what do they share with one another?
  • 6.1 Ethnography reduced
  • or: What remains is the quest for love
  • 1. Title of the texts and the qualities of their protagonists
  • 2. The protagonists' places of living
  • 3. Reasons for Yolina to set out for his journey
  • 4. Preparations for the journey, food and gifts
  • 5. Yolina's Imdeduya song
  • 6. Villages Yolina visits on his journey to Omyuva
  • 7. The villagers' offers and invitations to Yolina and his reaction
  • 8. Yolina's arrival at Imdeduya's village on Omyuva
  • 9. Events before Imdeduya's and Yolina's marriage and the marriage itself
  • 10. Imdeduya's and Yolina's life in the village until the breakup of their marriage
  • 11. Yolina leaving Imdeduya and his journey back home
  • 6.2 Lasting in literature
  • à la recherche du temps perdu...
  • 7. Concluding remarks on magic, myths and oral literature
  • Appendix I. Metadata for the variants of the myth documented on audio-tape tape
  • Chapter 1. The Imdeduya song
  • Chapter 2. Gerubara's Imdeduya story
  • Chapter 3. Mokopai's Imdeduya myth
  • Chapter 5. Sail the Midnight Song
  • Appendix II. The structure of Gerubara's "Imdeduya" tale.
  • Appendix IIIa. The structure of Mokopei's version of the Imdeduya myth
  • Appendix IIIb. Yolina's journey in Mokopei's version of the Imdeduya myth
  • Appendix IVa. The (simplified) structure of Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth
  • Appendix IVb. Yolina's journey in Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth
  • Appendix V. The structure of John Kasaipwalova's poem "Sail the Midnight Sun"
  • References
  • Index.