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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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017
Series:Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
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