Storibuk Pairundu

Tales and Legends from the Kewa (Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea)

by Holger Jebens

Book cover: Storibuk Pairundu

Extent: 370 pages

Publisher: Dietrich Reimer Verlag

Subjects: Anthropology, Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2015)

ISBN: 9783496015499

Price: $62.00

In stock

This is an original and unique collection of tales and legends from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Recorded by a thirteen-year old boy from a small and remote rural village, the stories present a kind of ‘indigenous auto ethnography’. Yet, on some pages people pursue their daily activities, grow food and raise pigs, while on others the protagonists encounter bush spirits, tap into sources of unlimited wealth or are transformed into animals. In other words, the fabulous follows on from the mundane, and what seems prosaic in one story gives way to the extraordinary in the next. The book could be recommended for undergraduate and graduate courses on general anthropology, literature, linguistics, folklore research, myth and religion, poetry and Pacific studies.

  • By (author) Holger Jebens