Mothers, lovers others : an evolutionary analysis of womanhood in Western Malayo-Polynesian oral traditions

This thesis is the first to study female characters from Western Malayo-Polynesian oral tradition. It is also the first to apply an evolutionary literary analysis to these stories. The aim was to analyse the life history cycle of women as portrayed in oral stories from the Western Malayo-Polynesian...

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Main Author: Abdul Hadi, Nurul Ikhlas
Other Authors: Caldwell, Ian ; Santovetti, Olivia ; Baldini, Alessio
Published: University of Leeds 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713205