Scoditti Kitawa Literary Fragments

How Storytelling Shapes Spacetime in a Melanesian Matrilineal Culture
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-129133-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 1028 Seiten

The Nowau oral texts collected in this volume were recorded by Scoditti during the several years of fieldwork on Kitawa Island (Papua New Guinea) devoted mainly to understanding the mental mechanisms followed by the , that are the makers of the , the poets, the magicians, the female and male singers who perform a poetic text by a poet to an composed by a musician. With these early works, Scoditti identifies within Kitawa culture a clear distinction between the and the - of a given oral text, be it a and a one, a distinction that has called into question the hypothesis that in a culture that does not know, or use, any form of , a is composed at the time of its performance, so that and would coincide.

A first result of his interpretation is art in Melanesia (1990, De Gruyter Mouton), then by from Melanesia (1996, ANU Press), (2012, Sean Kingston Publishing) and, now .

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of classics, archaeology and linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scoditti, Giancarlo M. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Über Autor(innen)

Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti, Univeristy of Urbino, Italy.