RSS 1.0Oral tradition, volume 05, number 2-3 (May 1990) - South Pacific Oral Traditions
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Editor's Column
- About the Authors (Back Matter)
- Articles
-
Introduction: or, Why the Comparativist Should Take Account of the South Pacific
by Ruth Finnegan -
"My Summit Where I Sit": Form and Content in Maori Women's Love Songs
by Margaret Orbell -
Wry Comment from the Outback: Songs of Protest from the Niva Islands, Tonga
by Wendy Pond -
Sex and Slander in Tikopia Song: Public Antagonism and Private Intrigue
by Raymond Firth -
Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memories
by Steven Feld -
Profile of a Composer: Ihaia Puka, a Pulotu of the Tokelau Islands
by Ineleo Tuia, Allen Thomas -
Fiction, Fact, and Imagination: A Tokelau Narrative
by Judith Huntsman -
"That Isn't Really a Pig": Spirit Traditions in the Southern Cook Islands
by Christian Clerk -
"Head" and "Tail": The Shaping of Oral Traditions among the Binandere in Papua New Guinea
by John D. Waiko -
Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Alternatives to Oral Tradition in Ponam Society
by James Carrier, Achsah Carrier -
Winged Tangi'ia: A Mangaian Dramatic Performance
by Teaea Parima, Marivee McMath
[Collection created May 30, 2018]
Items in MOspace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Recent Submissions
-
About the authors (Oral Tradition, 5/2-3, 1990)
(1990-05) -
"My Summit Where I Sit": Form and Content in Maori Women's Love Songs
(1990-05)It is still widely assumed, despite the writings of Ruth Finnegan (esp. 1977:73-87) and others, that the composition of oral poetry necessarily involves improvisation. But most traditional Maori songs, for example, were ... -
Winged Tangi'ia: A Mangaian Dramatic Performance
(1990-05)With the arrival of Europeans rapid and far-reaching social change occurred in Polynesia, and a number of observers predicted that the oral tradition of the area in which they were living was about to disappear. Yet over ... -
Wry Comment From the Outback: Songs of Protest From the Niua Islands, Tonga
(1990-05)I ask leave from the poets and orators of Tonga, whose inherited metaphors I am about to describe in the plain language of English. My work is the product of many years of joint endeavor with Tupou Posesi Fanua. The Kingdom ... -
Profile of a Composer: Ihaia Puka, a Pulotu of the Tokelau Islands
(1990-05)By the designation pulotu Tokelau Islanders acknowledge master craftsmanship in their contemporary song-poetry tradition. The title is only given to experienced and distinguished composers who have built for themselves a ... -
"Head" And "Tail": The Shaping of Oral Traditions Among the Binandere in Papua New Guinea
(1990-05)The main aim of this article is to provide some insight into the basic cultural perceptions and oral processes of the Binandere people, who evolved sophisticated oral art forms to register events, something which then came ... -
Introduction; or, Why the Comparativist Should Take Account of the South Pacific
(1990-05)This issue of Oral Tradition is devoted to oral traditions in the South Pacific and reports the results of a series of twentieth-century and mainly field-based studies. Since this region may be unfamiliar to some readers, ... -
Front matter (Oral Tradition, 5/2-3, 1990)
(1990-05) -
Back matter (Oral Tradition, 5/2-3, 1990)
(1990-05) -
Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Alternatives to Oral Tradition in Ponam Society
(1990-05)Those concerned with recording the history, the culture, and the tradition of village societies seek the sources of their information in the spoken word. Historians, folklorists, and anthropologists have sat down with their ... -
Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memories
(1990-05)The study of lament forms, including ritual wailing, sung-texted weeping, keen, mourning songs, dirge, and elegy, is complexly located in discourses of the humanities and social sciences. Because lament varieties are ... -
Sex and Slander in Tikopia Song: Public Antagonism and Private Intrigue
(1990-05)Tikopia, a small Polynesian island community in the Solomon Islands, has had a great tradition of orally communicated song. This song tradition has had several marked features. It was very largely a choral tradition. ... -
Cover (Oral Tradition, 5/2-3, 1990)
(1990-05)