Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands
Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands

Author: Rosemary Grimble

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1136547533

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This book is a collection of Arthur Grimble's field notes and early writings, brought together in book form with linking pieces and a large number of illustrations. There are chapters on cannibalism and head hunting, on astronomy and on many aspects of the lives of the Gilbertese people from birth to death. Originally published in 1972.

Kapingamarangi Lexicon
Kapingamarangi Lexicon

Author: Michael D. Lieber

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-03-31

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13: 082488132X

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The Kapingamarangi lexicon is designed for use by the Kapinga in their own classrooms as a teaching resource, by comparative linguists interested in Polynesian languages, and as an aid for those learning Kapinga. The lexicon presents an exhaustive list of 6,000 root words and their use in deriving words, compounds, and phrases. An introduction delineates the rules of word structure in the Kapinga language in simple, nontechnical English with explanatory footnotes in Kapinga. In addition, the introduction includes material directed primarily to linguists dealing with such problems as word classes, problems of reduplication, and the like. The lexicon itself is arranged in three listings: Kapingamarangi-English, English-Kapingamarangi, and by root words, demonstrating how they are systematically derived and compounded.