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Book Description
One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights is a two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The folktales were originally published in Tok Pisin, the pidgin English language of Papua New Guinea. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin. This collection is one of the largest general collections of Papua New Guinean folktales; all of Papua New Guinea's provinces are represented and approximately 35% of Papua New Guinea's 700 language/culture groups are represented. This first volume presents the introduction and 550 folktales; the second volume presents the remaining folktales.
The folktales have been intensively indexed in the volumes and the indices are presented in volume two. Indices are given for author, village, original language (or culture group), province, flora and fauna, and folklore motif. Also in volume two are a glossary, a set of maps and a gazetteer.
About the Author
Thomas H. Slone is a staff scientist at the University of California at Berkeley and the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has published more than 30 papers in the field of cancer research over the past 15 years. He has traveled extensively, and has visited Papua New Guinea three times. He has published two articles about Papua New Guinea: "Tok nogut: An introduction to malediction in Papua New Guinea" (Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression 11: 75-104, 1996) and "A comparison of price, rarity and cost of butterfly specimens: implications for the insect trade and for habitat conservation." (Ecological Economics 21: 77-85, 1997). In the process of researching this book, he has created two extensive bibliographies on the World-Wide Web: one covering Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, word lists and study guides and the other covering Papua New Guinean folktales.
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