Books written by Gunter Senft
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Culture and Language Use
In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology.
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Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea: Childhood and educational ideologies in Tauwema
know she works like this: She knows how to bind fibre-skirts, she knows how to bi-sibasi moi, e-nukwali bi-sibasi koasi ... gala la pweya, gala la moi, gala goods bad no her grass.skirt.basket not her mat not goods are bad, she does not ...
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Understanding Pragmatics
In doing so they heavily rely on the 'reflexive relation between the “facts” about society and the ways ... [they] use practical reasoning and commonsense knowledge to depict society' (Psathas 1994: 1162). Garfinkel's approach will be ...
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Culture and Language Use
Searching for aboriginal languages. University of Queensland Press. Duranti, A. (1981). The Samoan fono. Australian National University. Ellen, R.F. (Ed.) (1984). Ethnographic research. Academic Press. Foley, W.A. (1991). Field methods.
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Systems of Nominal Classification
With respect to " AGREEMENT IN < something > AND NUMBER ” , these languages are endowed only with a more or less developed “ AGREEMENT IN NUMBER " or with NUMBER without agreement at all . Typologically , however , this type of number ...
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Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea Gunter Senft. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1974. Magic, Science and Religion and ... The Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya in a comparative perspective (II).
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Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children...
Culture hero stories and tales of tricksters, the Bird's Head peninsula of Irian Jaya in a comparative perspective (II). In Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Proceedings of the Conference Leiden, 13–17 October ...
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The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and Their Spirits of the Dead
This volume presents a critical review of Malinowski's ethnography of Trobriand eschatology - finally settling the "virgin birth" controversy. It also documents the ritualized and highly poetic "wosi milamala" - the harvest festival songs.
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The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking
... baloma' spirit – who resembles the deceased as an adolescent – has to leave her or his former village. The 'baloma' then swims to Tuma Island – following a route that is specific for the island where s/he lived. These routes come ...
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Endangered Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal Languages: Essays on Language Documentation, Archiving, and Revitalization
The anthology focuses mainly on endangered Oceanic languages, with articles on Vanuatu by Darrell Tryon and the Marquesas by Gabriele Cablitz, on situations of loss and gain by Ingjerd Hom︠...
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Deixis and Demonstratives in Oceanic Languages
When we communicate, we communicate in a certain context, and this context shapes our utterances. Natural languages are context-bound and deixis 'concerns the ways in which languages encode or grammaticalise...