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

• Autore principale: Gunter Senft (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017
• Serie: Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Soggetti: Anthropological linguistics; Austronesian languages; Narrative studies; Linguistics; Anthropology
• Accesso online: 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...