Jack A. Tobin

Stories from the Marshall islands : Bwebwenato Jan Aelon Kein

University of Hawai'i press

Honolulu, 2002

bibliothèque insulaire
   
parutions 2002
Stories from the Marshall Islands : Bwebwenato Jan Aelon Kein / ed. by Jack A. Tobin. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i press, 2002. - XIII-405 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-8248-2545-4
NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR : Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and culture. Here are ninety folktales and stories of historical events, collected and translated into English during the third quarter of the twentieth century. Many are presented in the original language and are amplified by extensive commentary.

❙ Jack A. Tobin began this study half a century ago, when he arrived at Arno Atoll as part of an anthropological expedition. For much of the next three decades he lived in the islands, learning the language and culture, and to this day remains in close contact with people and life in the Marshalls.
SOMMAIRE
 (résumé)		 Preface
Introduction
  • Stories of beginnings
  • Stories about animals
  • Stories about evil spirits and flying women
  • Other stories
  • Historical events
Appendices
  • Biographies of storytellers
  • Motifs of the stories
  • Weather forecasting and navigation
  • A note on canoe-building in the old days
  • The old Marshallese method of counting
Maps

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