Download or read book Lau of North Malaita Solomon Islands written by Giordana A. Featherstone-Santosuosso and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lau is an Austronesian Oceanic language, a member of the Northern Malaita branch of the South-East Solomonic subgroup. From Sio Bay at the very north-eastern tip of the island of Malaita down to Ngalia reef, the Lau language is spoken along the coast and on the artificial islands by around 17,000 people. Lau is an AVO/VS language that possesses head-marking characteristics. After an introduction to the language, its people, its contact with neighbouring languages in Chapter 1, a presentation of the phonology follows in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 begins the discussion of the morphosyntax of the language with the structure of the verb phrase. Chapters 4 and 5 look at the noun phrase and prepositional phrases. Chapter 6 is concerned with possessive and associative constructions. The most significant distinction between Lau and other Oceanic languages is the marking of the so-called 'indirect possessive'. Lau does not exhibit the usual suffixing pronominal forms to an adjacent possessive constituent; rather the relation between possessum and possessor is expressed by a free independent pronominal form or a lexical noun phrase. Chapter 7 focuses on the expressions of tense, aspect, and modality in the language. Chapters 8 and 9 are concerned with clause structure. Chapter 8 details nonverbal clauses, negation, interrogatives, self-contained situations, and topic and focus, as well as temporal and locational clauses. Chapter 9 goes on to describe subordinate and coordinate clauses. Along with the language affiliation of the Austronesian family as appendixes, a sample text is included.
Download or read book A Checklist of Fish Names in the Lau Language of Lau Lagoon North Malaita Solomon Islands written by Toata Molea and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language written by Walter G. Ivens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language: Solomon Islands Lau is the name given to the language spoken by the inhabitants of the artificial islets which lie off the northeast coast of Big Malaita, Solomon Islands. The language spoken on the coast from Uru on the northeast to Langalanga, Alite Harbor, on the northwest of Big Malaita, is practically Lau. On the west coast there is considerable admixture of Fiu, which is the language of the bush behind the Langalanga lagoon. In Dr. Codrington's "Melanesian Languages," pp. 39 et seq., certain words are given as spoken at AJite in Langalanga. These words are probably Fiu rather than Lau. The purest Lau is spoken at Suluf ou, one of the artificial islets near Atta Cove. The inhabitants of Ai-lali, on the mainland of Big Malaita opposite the island Aio, are an offshoot of the LauHspeaking peoples. In Port Adam (Malau) on Little Malaita, some 12 miles north of Sa'a, there are two villages, Ramarama and Malede, inhabited by Lau-speaking peoples, and the inhabitants of these villages hold as a tradition that their forefathers migrated from Suraina, near Atta Cove, 80 miles away, along the coast to the north. The Lau of this grammar and vocabulary was learned from dealings with the Port Adam natives and also from a stay of several weeks with Rev. A. I. Hopkins, at Mangoniia, on the mainland opposite the artificial islet Ferasubua. It is not claimed that the Lau here presented is the same as the Lau of the northeast coast of Big Malaita. Doubtless owing to the Port Adam peoples being surrounded by Sa'a-speaking peoples, they have adopted Sa'a words and methods of speech to some extent. The women of the hill peoples above Port Adam have largely been procured as wives for the Port Adam men and thus there has been a tendency for the distinctiveness of the Lau language to disappear and for the Sa a words to be adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language Solomon Islands written by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands W. G. (Walter George) Ivens Lau is the name given to the language spoken by the inhabitants of the artificial islets which lie off the northeast coast of Big Malaita, Solomon Islands. The language spoken on the coast from Uru on the northeast to Langalanga, Alite Harbor, on the northwest of Big Malaita, is practically Lau. On the west coast there is considerable admixture of Fiu, which is the language of the bush behind the Langalanga lagoon. In Dr. Codrington's "Melanesian Languages," pp. 39 et seq., certain words are given as spoken at Alite in Langalanga. These words are probably Fiu rather than Lau. The purest Lau is spoken at Sulufou, one of the artificial islets near Atta Cove. The inhabitants of Ai-lali, on the mainland of Big Malaita opposite the island Aio, are an offshoot of the Lau-speaking peoples. In Port Adam (Malau) on Little Malaita, some 12 miles north of Sa'a, there are two villages, Ramarama and Malede, inhabited by Lau-speaking peoples, and the inhabitants of these villages hold as a tradition that their forefathers migrated from Suraina, near Atta Cove, 80 miles away, along the coast to the north. The Lau of this grammar and vocabulary was learned from dealings with the Port Adam natives and also from a stay of several weeks with Rev. A. I. Hopkins, at Mangoniia, on the mainland opposite the artificial islet Ferasubua. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book An Ethnographic Study of the State in Rural Solomon Islands Lau North Malaita written by Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Solomon Islands capital, Honiara (four months), and in the rural Lau Lagoon, Malaita Province (eight months). It examines how the Solomon Islands state, marked by a recent history of civil conflict and foreign military intervention, becomes visible in the everyday lives of rural and, to a lesser degree, urban non-elites; and how this visibility affects non-elite perceptions of the state as legitimate, dominant governing system. I propose that to understand to what extent and how the Solomon Islands state is integrated into everyday routines it is necessary to focus on mundane encounters with the state, its infrastructures and representatives as well as available alternatives; and to do so by prioritizing the perspective of the non-elites rather than the perspective of the disciplining state and state-focused members of (an urban) civil society. My findings highlight that the Solomon Islands state is visible as a disruptive force. As a result non-elites continue to defy state-based unification and instead seek relative autonomy from the state by emphasizing the dominance and legitimacy of village-centric governance. This quest for autonomy is, however, increasingly curtailed by dependency on foreign foods and goods, and therein by a dependency on the state as primary globally-recognized legitimate mediator of economic relations.
Download or read book Making Mala written by Clive Moore and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undeserved reputation for conservatism and aggression. Making Mala argues that in essence Malaitans are no different from other Solomon Islanders, and that their dominance, both in numbers and their place in the modern nation, can be explained through their recent history. A grounding theme of the book is its argument that, far than being conservative, Malaitan religions and cultures have always been adaptable and have proved remarkably flexible in accommodating change. This has been the secret of Malaitan success. Malaitans rocked the foundations of the British protectorate during the protonationalist Maasina Rule movement in the 1940s and the early 1950s, have heavily engaged in internal migration, particularly to urban areas, and were central to the ‘Tension Years’ between 1998 and 2003. Making Mala reassesses Malaita’s history, demolishes undeserved tropes and uses historical and cultural analyses to explain Malaitans’ place in the Solomon Islands nation today.
Download or read book The Double Twist written by Pierre Maranda and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude L?vi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula." The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.
Download or read book Solomon Island Folktales from Malaita written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matins and Evensong Lau Mala Solomon Islands written by Church of England and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Sa a and Ulawa Solomon Islands written by Walter George Ivens and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matins and evensong Lau Mala Solomon Islands written by Church of England and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning from the lagoon Research in development in Solomon Islands written by van der Ploeg, J. and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major challenge for international agricultural research is to find ways to improve the nutrition and incomes of people left behind by the Green Revolution. To better address the needs of the most marginal and vulnerable people, the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) developed the research-in-development (RinD) approach. In 2012, WorldFish started to implement RinD in Solomon Islands. By building people’s capacity to analyze and address development problems, actively engaging relevant stakeholders, and linking research to these processes, RinD aims to develop an alternative approach to addressing hunger and poverty. This report describes the key principles and implementation process, and assesses the emergent outcomes of this participatory, systems-oriented and transformative research approach in Solomon Islands.
Download or read book Understanding the Cultures of Fishing Communities written by James R. McGoodwin and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Download or read book The Pacific Islands written by Moshe Rapaport and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic survey of the Pacific Islands. Includes maps, photographs, tables, diagrams, atlas, and detailed index.
Download or read book State and Community in Fisheries Management written by E. Paul Durrenberger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who are involved with fishing and fisheries resource management—including fishermen, their communities, production, processing, distribution, and marketing industries, and various government and non-governmental organizations—confront the contradictions arising from the appropriation, allocation, and distribution of fisheries and marine resources in a variety of ways. The authors call into question the assumptions of policy prescriptions to common resource problems by examining the experiences of people and societies confronted with and adapting to these resource appropriation, allocation, and distribution problems. They suggest that tragedies of resource depletion and institutional failure to deal with them are not characteristic of human nature, but rather are by products of particular cultural practices, institutions, and assumptions. The detailed, empirical ethnographic study of these relationships holds great potential for informing those who are making future policy decisions as well as contributing to the theories of human behavior and cooperation to solve such problems.
Download or read book Digital Culture Society DCS written by Ramón Reichert and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Digital Culture & Society« is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a publication environment for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments and methodological innovation. This issue, edited by Anna Lisa Ramella, Asko Lehmuskallio, Tristan Thielmann and Pablo Abend, discusses the mobility of people, data and devices from the perspective of digital mobile practices. As the authors of various empirical case studies show, these need to be studied both situationally, and on the move. With contributions by Marion Schulze, Jamie Coates, Geoffrey Hobbis, Samuel Gerald Collins, among others, and an interview with Heather Horst, David Morley, and Noel B. Salazar.
Download or read book Solomon Islands written by Schwarz, A.M.; Andrew, N.; Govan, H.; Harohau, D.; Oeta, J. and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
