Thirty years in the south seas : land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands

著者

• Parkinson, R.
• Ankermann, B.
• Dennison, John
• White, J. Peter (John Peter)

書誌事項

Thirty years in the south seas : land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands

by R. Parkinson ; edited by B. Ankermann ; translated by John Dennison ; translation edited by J. Peter White

Crawford house, c1999

タイトル別名

Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee

注記

Originally published: Strecker & Schroder, 1907

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This account of life in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 19th century should be useful for ethnographers and historians of the South Pacific. Parkinson's travels took him to New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, Buka and Bougainville. He observed religion, artefacts and language.

目次

• The German professor, Richard Parkinson
• New Britain with the French islands and the Duke of York
• New Ireland, New Hanover and their offshore islands
• St Matthias and the neighbouring islands
• the Admiralty Islands
• the Western Islands
• the German Solomon Islands, together with Nissan and the Carteret Islands
• the eastern islands (Nuguria, Tauu and Nukumanu)
• secret societies, totemism, mask and mask dances
• stories and fables
• languages
• cultigens and useful plants, domestic and hunted animals
• history of discovery.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA54487219
• ISBN:
  • 1850655456
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: ger
• 出版地: Bathurst, Australia
• ページ数/冊数: xxxvi, 378 p.
• 大きさ: 30 cm