Past is present - Present is past: Time and the harvest rituals on the Trobriand Islands

Anthropos

Volumn 91, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 381-389

  Senft, Gunter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concepts of time; Harvest festival; Kilivila; Ritual communication; Songs; Tobriand Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039568141     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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27. Senft, Gunter 1985 Trauer auf Trobriand. Eine ethnologisch/linguistische Fallstudie. Anthropos 80: 471-492. 1986 Kilivila: The Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1987 Wosi Milamala: Weisen von Liebe und Tod auf den Trobriand Inseln. Paper presented at the colloquium "Kommunikative Formen der gesellschaftlichen Organisation des Wissens", Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg. Seewiesen. [Mimeo] 1991 Prolegomena to the Pragmatics of "Situational-Intentional" Varieties in Kilivila Language. In: Jef Verschueren (ed.), Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected Papers from the 1987 International Pragmatics Conference, vol. 2; pp. 235-248. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1992a "Bakavilisi Biga" - or What Happens to English Words in the Kilivila Language? Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 23: 13-49. 1992b "As Time Goes by ...": Changes Observed in Trobriand Islanders' Culture and Language, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. In: Tom Dutton (ed.), Culture Change, Language Change: Case Studies from Melanesia; pp. 67-89. Canberra: The Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics, Series C, 120) 1994 These "Procrustean" Feelings ... - Some of My Problems in describing Kilivila. Semaian 11: 86-105.
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