Author: Jakob Mua Laupu
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Ol Stori Bilong Laupu
Author: Jakob Mua Laupu
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Author: Herman C. Kemp
Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry Trompf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
A New Guinea Bibliography
Author:
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Category : New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Aging and Its Transformations
Author: Dorothy Ayers Counts
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Studies the changing social status of ageing members of the community in Pacific societies, cultural understandings of the processes of life and death, relationships between the living, the dying and the dead and strategies employed by individuals as they mature, gain adult status, age and die.
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Studies the changing social status of ageing members of the community in Pacific societies, cultural understandings of the processes of life and death, relationships between the living, the dying and the dead and strategies employed by individuals as they mature, gain adult status, age and die.
Bikmaus
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Nguna Voices
Author: Ellen E. Facey
Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book is unique in several respects: it is the first monograph to be written concerning the Pacific culture of Vanuatu; it includes thirty-three oral texts in their original language as well as in English translation; it contains an exhaustive glossary of the foreign vocabulary; and it provides information of a sort rarely seen in textual collections, concerning the methodology and problems involved in textual transcription, translation and presentation. These features make it of considerable value to oceanic specialists as well as to general linguists, folklorists and ethnographers.
Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book is unique in several respects: it is the first monograph to be written concerning the Pacific culture of Vanuatu; it includes thirty-three oral texts in their original language as well as in English translation; it contains an exhaustive glossary of the foreign vocabulary; and it provides information of a sort rarely seen in textual collections, concerning the methodology and problems involved in textual transcription, translation and presentation. These features make it of considerable value to oceanic specialists as well as to general linguists, folklorists and ethnographers.
Music and Culture in South-East New Britain
Author: Wolfgang Laade
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Choral singing
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Documents the music of the Lote and Maenge (Mengen) of the coast and the Mamusi of the interior. Choral songs dominate; instrumental music consists of flute and panpipe tunes. Initiation and death ceremonies play a central role.
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Choral singing
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Documents the music of the Lote and Maenge (Mengen) of the coast and the Mamusi of the interior. Choral songs dominate; instrumental music consists of flute and panpipe tunes. Initiation and death ceremonies play a central role.
Sacred Music of Serieng Village, Papua New Guinea
Author: Robert Reigle
Publisher:
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Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description