Imdeduya. Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

• Autor principal: Gunter Senft (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017
• Colecção: Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Assuntos: Anthropological linguistics; Austronesian languages; Narrative studies; Linguistics; Anthropology
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...