Sexual Snakes,
Winged Maidens
and
Sky Gods
edited by
Serge Dunis
2008
from 2004 symposium
1908-2008
Serge Dunis, Université de la Polynésie française
PREFACE, MYTH IN THE ISLANDS
Jean Guiart, Musée de l'Homme
DEFINITIONS
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INTRODUCTION
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Chapter I
THE SEA
Ben Finney, University of Hawai’i at Manoa:
With Myth as Their Inspiration
Chapter II & Chapter III
INFINITE SPACE AND INFINITE TIME
Doug Dalton, Longwood University:
The Tears of the Stars
&
Jukka Siikala, University of Helsinki:
The Structure of Becoming, Cosmogonic Myths of the Cook Islands
Chapter IV
RAWSEX
Roger Ivar Lohmann, Trent University:
Sexual Snakes Strike Again, immortality expressed and explained in a
New Guinea myth
Chapter V & Chapter VI
SEX, INCEST, PREGNANCY AND PARITY
Serge Dunis, Université de la Polynésie française:
Incest and Political Power in New Zealand and Hawai'i
&
Marika Moisseeff, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris:
One Initiated Woman is Worth Two: from Polynesia's ‘Island of Women’
to America's Alien
Chapter VII & Chapter VIII
SUBLIMATED SEX AND FREE SEX
Unasa Leulu Felise Va’a, National University of Samoa :
Sina and Her Brother Lupe
&
Solange Skinner, former Head of the French scientific mission in Fiji:
Sexuality in Nauru: Gamodugudug and Amweb
Chapter IX & Chapter X
MELANESIAN SUPER-WOMAN AND POLYNESIAN BEAUTY
Naomi M. McPherson, Okanagan University College:
Galiki, the Firstborn: mythic female and feminine ideal in Bariai, West
New Britain, Papua New Guinea
&
Heather Young Leslie, University of Hawai’i at Manoa:
Hina's Fish and the Tu'iha'angana of Tonga, from Samoa with love
Chapter XI & Chapter XII
MALE CREATION AND MALE SUPREMACY
Wolfgang Kempf, University of Göttingen:
Reclaiming Male Power: myth, morality and modernity in a Papua New Guinea
society,
&
Jean-Guy Cintas, Université de Bordeaux:
Myth and Poetry in the Kumulipo
Chapter XIII
THE DISCUSSANT’S VIEWPOINT
Ward H. Goodenough,
Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania:
Myth in Oceania
CONCLUSION
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY