Download or read book From Grammar to Politics written by Alessandro Duranti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-08-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Innovative and thorough scholarship by an acknowledged leader in his field, one which lies at the often quite baffling intersection of linguistics and anthropology."—Donald L. Brenneis, Editor, American Ethnologist
Download or read book A Study of the Languages of Torres Straits with Vocabularies and Grammatical Notes written by Sidney Herbert Ray and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison to show relations between Papuans and Australians; Miriam, Saibai, Daudai; divisions of Saibai = Kauralaig (Prince of Wales and Moa), Gumulaig (Badu and Mabuiag), Sabailaig (Saibai, Dauan and Boigu) and Kulkalaig (Nagir, Tud, Masig); Mirriam = Murray Island (Mer, Waier and Dauan), Erub and Ugar; comparative vocabulary of English, Miriam and Daudai; sketch of Miriam grammar, lengthy vocabulary, texts with translations.
Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by Donald MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of the book is to describe the Efate language. Comparison is made with other languages in order to elucidate certain aspects of Efate or as evidence in support of the author's theory that the Oceanic languages have their origin in Semitic.
Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oriental Biographical Dictionary written by Thomas William Beale and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Bantu written by Alice Werner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Pacific Insular Case of American S moa written by Line-Noue Memea Kruse and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions, administrative decisions, court cases and rising tensions between indigenous customary land tenure practices in American Sāmoa and Western notions of individual private ownership. It also highlights how unusual the status of American Sāmoa is in its relationship with the U.S., namely as the only “unincorporated” and “unorganized” overseas territory, and aims to expand the U.S. empire-building scholarship to include and recognize American Sāmoa into the vernacular of Americanization projects.
Download or read book Mauri Ola written by Albert Wendt and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians. The new book includes poetry written over the last 25 years by more than 80 writers from Aotearoa, Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti and Rotuma &– some living in these islands and some dispersed around the globe. Together with works by established and celebrated poets, the editors have introduced the fresh voices of a younger generation. The anthology includes selections from poets including Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Sia Figiel, J. C. Sturm, Konai Helu Thaman, Haunani-Kay Trask, Hone Tuwhare and Albert Wendt. The late Hawaiian poet Wayne Kaumualii Westlake is represented here by a unique set of concrete poems and experimental verse. Tusiata Avia tells tales of Nafanua in different settings around the world; Rangi Faith imagines &‘First Landing'; Imaikalani Kalahele writes a letter to his brother; Brandy Nalani McDougall discusses &‘cooking Captain Cook'; Karlo Mila, eating chocolate, watches &‘paul holmes apologise for calling kofi annan a darkie'; Robert Sullivan writes against the grain; and Apirana Taylor follows zigzag roads. Ranging from the lyrical and sensual to the harsh and gritty, from the political to the personal, the poems in Mauri Ola are infused with vivid imagery, claims of identity, laments, rages and celebrations that confront again a colonial past and a global present.
Download or read book Tapa Talk written by Cherie Barford and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you cut x-rays They utter a peculiar cry But starfish split silently Make more of themselves To fill up empty spaces Something the lonely could do This collection of poetry explores the separation of and connections between people, places, and cultures. There are transformations from bark to cloth and plants to dyes, from limited views to wider understandings, and from being lonely to loved. The poems fill the senses with vivid colours, intense and languid heat, sinuous and silky textures, heady tropical scents and rhythms of tapa being pounded and voices 'rolling like marbles unevenly across the table'.
Download or read book Dark Sparring written by Selina Marsh and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Selina Marsh’s first collection, Fast Talking PI, boldly, insightfully, and lyrically wrestled with the realities of being an individual of Pacific descent in primarily European world, her latest offering fiercely combats the loss of a loved on with all of the techniques of poetry and the Thai kickboxing she practices at her disposal. The compendium brims with a fluid, humming list of poems, literary shout outs, and personal elegies, as Marsh takes readers through her mother’s cancer diagnosis and the long journey as her illness played itself out. Along the way, the poet offers glimpses of other parts of her world as well: scenes from Matiatia to Orapiu to Apia; classroom politics; the importance of leadership; and the reasons she feels New Zealand is a “lucky” country. The affecting, rhythmic verses in the book are given a literal, and appealing, voice in the accompanying audio CD, on which Marsh reads aloud a selection of the poems.
Download or read book Margaret Mead and Samoa written by Derek Freeman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.
Download or read book Pouliuli written by Albert Wendt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds that everything around him now fills with revulsion? What happens when Faleasa Osovae, the highest ranking alii in the village of Maalaelua, feigns madness and throws away his responsibilities as a chief?
Download or read book The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic written by Malcolm Ross and published by Anu Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time.
Download or read book The American Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language written by Daniel S. Smalley and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Start in Panjabi written by Harjeet Singh Gill and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported herein was performed pursuant to a contract with the United States Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, number OE-3-14-004.
Download or read book Samoan Dictionary written by George Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whetu Moana written by Robert Sullivan and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whetu Moana is the first anthology of contemporary Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians. It collects poems written over the last twenty years from more than 60 poets in Aotearoa, Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue and Rotuma. Well-known poets like Hone Tuwhare, Alistair Campbell and Haunani-Kay Trask are joined by talented young voices, the poets appearing in alphabetical order in a way that presents both an overall Polynesian identity and a focus on individual style. Traditional laments mix with street-smart rap rhythms; images of seascapes and landscapes mingle with shots of urban slums. Political anger is a powerful force in these poems but many are personal and particular. Whetu Moana reveals an active, changing, varied, creative scene, which confronts both a complex colonial past and a fast-moving global present with energy, courage and vitality.
