Imdeduya. Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
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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Main Author: | Gunter Senft (auth) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2017
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Series: | Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
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