Imdeduya : Variants of a Myth of Love and Hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea.

Intro -- Imdeduya -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gerubara's version of Imdeduya - a "'kukwanebu tommwaya tokunabogwa"' - a story of the old men in former times -- 3. Mokopai's version of Imdeduya - the "'liliu Imdeduya mokwita'" - the real Imdeduya myth -- 4. Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth documented by Jerry Leach in annotated English glosses as "A Kula folktale from Kiriwina" -- IMDEDUYA -- 5. John Kasaipwalova's poem "Sail the Midnight Sun" -- 5.1 The poem -- 5.2 A summary of the poem's plot and a few remarks on its structure -- 6. How do the five Imdeduya texts differ from each other and what do they share with one another? -- 6.1 Ethnography reduced - or: What remains is the quest for love -- 1. Title of the texts and the qualities of their protagonists -- 2. The protagonists' places of living -- 3. Reasons for Yolina to set out for his journey -- 4. Preparations for the journey, food and gifts -- 5. Yolina's Imdeduya song -- 6. Villages Yolina visits on his journey to Omyuva -- 7. The villagers' offers and invitations to Yolina and his reaction -- 8. Yolina's arrival at Imdeduya's village on Omyuva -- 9. Events before Imdeduya's and Yolina's marriage and the marriage itself -- 10. Imdeduya's and Yolina's life in the village until the breakup of their marriage -- 11. Yolina leaving Imdeduya and his journey back home -- 6.2 Lasting in literature - à la recherche du temps perdu… -- 7. Concluding remarks on magic, myths and oral literature -- Appendix I. Metadata for the variants of the myth documented on audio-tape tape -- Chapter 1. The Imdeduya song -- Chapter 2. Gerubara's Imdeduya story -- Chapter 3. Mokopai's Imdeduya myth -- Chapter 5. Sail the Midnight Song -- Appendix II. The structure of Gerubara's "Imdeduya" tale.

Appendix IIIa. The structure of Mokopei's version of the Imdeduya myth -- Appendix IIIb. Yolina's journey in Mokopei's version of the Imdeduya myth -- Appendix IVa. The (simplified) structure of Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth -- Appendix IVb. Yolina's journey in Sebwagau's version of the Imdeduya myth -- Appendix V. The structure of John Kasaipwalova's poem "Sail the Midnight Sun" -- References -- Index.

This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova's English poem "Sail the Midnight Sun".

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