Ku Waru: Language And Segmentary Politics In The Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea

By Alan Rumsey, Francesca Merlan, Francesca Merlan A. Alan Rumsey

The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. This book is the first to concentrate on exchange events and the elaborate oratory used at them. Focus...

Ku Waru: Language And Segmentary Politics In The Western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea

By Alan Rumsey, Francesca Merlan, Francesca Merlan A. Alan Rumsey

The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. This book is the first to concentrate on exchange events and the elaborate oratory used at them. Focus...

Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, And Knowledge In Aboriginal Australia And Papua New Guinea

By Alan Rumsey

Tracks, Traces, And Links To Land In Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, And Beyond / Alan Rumsey -- The Politics Of Religious Secrecy / Jürg Wassmann -- Condensed Mapping: Myth And The Folding Of Sp...

Rumsey: Emplaced Myth: Space Paper

By Alan Rumsey, Rumsey, Alan (Editor), Weiner, James F. (Editor)

Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This volume is the first i...

An Intra-Sentence Grammar Of Ungarinjin, North-Western Australia

By Alan Rumsey

By Alan Rumsey. Bibliography: P. 177-179.

Mining And Indigenous Lifeworlds In Australia And Papua New Guinea

By Alan Rumsey

Mining And Indigenous Lifeworlds In Australia And Papua New Guinea

By Alan Rumsey

Edited By Alan Rumsey And James Weiner. Originated In The Conference 'from Myth To Minerals : Place, Narrative, Land And Transformation In Australia And Papua New Guinea, ' Held At The Australian N...

Sung Tales From The Papua New Guinea Highlands: Studies In Form, Meaning, And Sociocultural Context

By Alan Rumsey, PAMELA J. STEWART, PHILIP GIBBS, Don Niles, Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, Hans.* Reithofer, Michael Solis, Andrew J. Strathern, Kirsty Gillespie, Kenny Yuwi Kendoli, Lilia San Roque, Gabe C.J. Lomas, Terrance Borchard, Frances J. Ingemann

The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards...

Ku Waru

By Alan Rumsey, Francesca Merlan

Ku Waru

By Alan Rumsey, Francesca Merlan