Sexual Snakes, Winged Maidens and Sky Gods (2008)
DUNIS, SERGE (ED.)
1908-2008
Serge Dunis, Université de la Polynésie française
PREFACE, MYTH IN THE ISLANDS
Jean Guiart, Musée de l'Homme
DEFINITIONS
Serge Dunis
INTRODUCTION
Serge Dunis
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
Serge Dunis
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Serge Dunis, Université de la Polynésie française
PREFACE, MYTH IN THE ISLANDS
Jean Guiart, Musée de l'Homme
DEFINITIONS
Serge Dunis
INTRODUCTION
Serge Dunis
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
Serge Dunis
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
