Table of contents Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Maps xiii Chapter 1 Introduction: The song... more Table of contents Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Maps xiii Chapter 1 Introduction: The song Imdeduya and its consequences 1 Chapter 2 Gerubara's version of Imdeduya -a "kukwanebu tommwaya tokunabogwa" -a story of the old men in former times 9 Chapter 3 Mokopai's version of Imdeduya -the "liliu Imdeduya mokwita" -the real Imdeduya myth 25 Chapter 4 Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth documented by Jerry Leach in annotated English glosses as "A Kula folktale from Kiriwina" 109 Chapter 5 John Kasaipwalova's poem "Sail the Midnight Sun" 135 Chapter 6 How do the five Imdeduya texts differ from each other and what do they share with one another? A comparative text linguistic approach 165 Chapter 7 Concluding remarks on magic, myths and oral literature 191
Peter Wittenburg, has also received two major EU grants for technical developments in the field o... more Peter Wittenburg, has also received two major EU grants for technical developments in the field of electronic archiving and retrieval. As usual, changes have taken place in the staff lists, including the departure this year of several staff members with very long associations with the Institute. However, the most radical staff change in the Institute this past year for once took place in the administration. After more than twenty years of keeping the Institute safely on the rails, Rolf Koenig steamed off into retirement at the end of the year. The Institute was fortunately able to locate a successor early enough for a long overlap period; Paul Lommen joined the institute in May 2000 and from 2001 is head of the administration.
Magic, missionaries, and religion - Some observations from the Trobriand Islands
... It also required strict Page 10. 54 Gunter Senft adherence to the rules of various rituals in... more ... It also required strict Page 10. 54 Gunter Senft adherence to the rules of various rituals in whichmagic played an import-ant part. ... These distribution ceremonies again were among the high-lights of the Trobriand Islanders' year and automatically involved experts as well as ...
Crime and custom auf den Trobriand-Inseln: Der Fall Tokurasi
Anthropos, 1995
Presentation d'une histoire mythique a propos de la revanche d'un homme qui a tente de tu... more Presentation d'une histoire mythique a propos de la revanche d'un homme qui a tente de tuer ses beux-freres : le protagoniste, un magicien, petrifie ses opposants - les pierres sont une des caracteristiques de la cote de l'ile Kaile'una. Sur la base de cette histoire et d'autres donnees, l'A. interprete cette histoire comme etant un conflit resultant dans un mariage entre cousins-croises. L'histoire a trois fonctions : elle marque un important point de repere, souligne le pouvoir du mot magique et rappelle aux iliens d'accepter le pouvoir d'un chef puissant. L'A. tente aussi d'illustrer combien l'information concernant les valeurs culturelles, les lois et les regulations sont codees meme dans un relativement court extrait de tradition orale
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Der Biologe kann menschliches Verhalten (1.) beschreiben und versuchen. es im Rahmen allgemein-bi... more Der Biologe kann menschliches Verhalten (1.) beschreiben und versuchen. es im Rahmen allgemein-biologischer GesetzmiijJigkeiten (2.) zu verstehen. Nicht Sache des ist es, ein Verhalten (3.) ethisch zu bewerten und zu recht/ertigen, denn dafi1.r ist es notig, dem Verhalten (4.) Ziele zu selzen, die einen anderen als den biolagischen NiitzlichkeitsmajJstab lie/ern.
1st emmal ... eine recht handgreifliche Abgeschmacktheit zu Papier gebracht, so rollt selbige una... more 1st emmal ... eine recht handgreifliche Abgeschmacktheit zu Papier gebracht, so rollt selbige unablassig von Buch zu Buch, und es ist das erste, wonach die Biichennacher greifen (Adalbert von Chamisso).'
Although the possibility of referring or citing on-line data from publications is seen at least t... more Although the possibility of referring or citing on-line data from publications is seen at least theoretically as an important means to provide immediate testable proof or simple illustration of a line of reasoning, the practice has not been wide-spread yet and no extensive experience has been gained about the possibilities and problems of referring to raw data-sets. This paper makes a case to investigate the possibility and need of persistent data visualization services that facilitate the inspection and evaluation of the cited data.
If one wished to identify the most characteristically verbal of all the verbs...one would turn to... more If one wished to identify the most characteristically verbal of all the verbs...one would turn to the verbs of motion, the verbs that describe how people and things change their places and their orientation in space...
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