Bibliography of Works Dealing with PNG Highlands Chanted Tales,
Grouped by Language Areas

1. Duna (Southern Highlands Province)

Haley, Nicole. 2002. Ipakana Yakaiya: Mapping Landscapes, Mapping Lives. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University. [for Duna pikono tales, see volume 1 Chapter 4. Other oral performance genres are also discussed at length]

Rumsey, Alan. forthcoming 2005. See Section 5 below. [includes discussion of Duna pikono performance]

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern. 2000. Naming Places: Duna Evocations of Landscape in Papua New Guinea. People and Culture in Oceania 16:87-107. [includes discussion of pikono and other Duna expressive genres]

---- 2000. Speaking for Life and Death: Warfare and Compensation among the Duna of Papua New Guinea. Senri Ethnological Reports 13: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. [includes discussions of pikono]

---- 2002. Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change among the Duna of Papua New Guinea. Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. [includes discussions of pikono and other Duna expressive genres]

---- 2002. See Section 5. below. [includes discussion of pikono on pp.135-145]

---- 2003. Introduction. In Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives, eds. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, pp. 1-15. Sterling, Virgina and London: Pluto Press. [includes discussion of pikono]

---- forthcoming 2005. Duna Pikono: A popular contemporary genre in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. In Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, eds. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Chapter 3. For the Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series. London: Ashgate Publishing.

Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. 2002. See Section 5. below. [see pp. 49-52, Sung Ballads from the Hagen and Duna Areas of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.]

---- 2004. Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future. The Duna People of Papua New Guinea. For the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [includes discussions of pikono and other Duna expressive genres]

2. Enga (Enga Province)

Lacey, Roderic. 1975. Oral Traditions as History: An Exploration of Oral History among the Enga of the New Guinea Highlands. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin. [The Enga chanted tale genre known as tindi pii is discussed throughout this text. Chapter 1 includes a translation of the opening section of a tindi pii performance]

Wiessner, Polly, and Akii Tumu. 1998. Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual and Warfare in Papua New Guinea. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. [tindi pii is discussed on pp. 25-27]

3. Huli (Southern Highlands Province)

Goldman, L. and Michael Emmison. 1995. Make-believe play among Huli children: performance, myth and imagination. Ethnology 34 (4): 225-255. [the use of bi te genre in children's make believe play]

Goldman, L. and Michael Emmison. 1996. Fantasy and double-play among Huli children of Papua New Guinea. Text 16 (1): 23-60. [structuring fantasy play speech with bi te genre]

Goldman, L. 1998. Child’s Play: Myth, Mimesis and Make-Believe. Oxford: Berg. [includes discussion of bi te as performed by adults, and the use of bi te intonational patterns by Huli children in the course of their imaginative play]

Goldman, L. 1998. A Trickster for all Seasons: The Huli Iba Tiri. In L. Goldman and C. Ballard (eds.) Fluid Ontologies. Myth, Ritual and Philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 87-124. [reference to bi te appears on p. 111 and includes an example of translated text]

Lomas, Gabe. 1988. The Huli language of Papua New Guinea. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Macquarie University. [includes a transcription and linguistic analysis of a Huli bi te chanted tale (pp. 380-86) and a comparative analysis of textual patterning in bi te and two other Huli genres (pp. 386-88)]

Pugh, Jacqueline. 1975. Communication, Language and Huli Music: A Preliminary Survey. Unpublished B.A. Honours thesis, Monash University. [includes discussion of bi te among other musical genres]

Pugh-Kitingan, Jacqueline. 1981. An Ethnomusicological Study of the Huli of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation (Music), University of Queensland. [an in-depth discussion of all Huli musical genres of the period, including musical transcriptions of bi te with text and translations, and analysis of these in relation to other Huli musical genres.]

--- 1984. Speech-Tone Realisation in Huli Music. In Problems & Solutions: Occasional Essays in Musicology Presented to Alice M. Moyle, ed. Jamie C. Kassler and Jill Stubington, pp. 94–120. Sydney: Hale and Iremonger. [a description of bi te is provided on p. 115]

Rumsey, Alan. forthcoming 2005. See Section 5. below [includes discussion of bi te]

Strathern, Andrew J., and Pamela J. Stewart. 1997. See Section 5. below [includes discussion bi te, pp. 12-13.]

4. Melpa/Ku Waru (Western Highlands Province)

Niles, Don. 2004. Encapsulations of Indigenous Knowledge: ‘Chanted Tales’ from the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Paper presented at the Melanesian and Pacific Studies Conference on "Reframing Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methods", University of Papua New Guinea. [includes an introduction to the Chanted Tales project as well as an analysis of a Ku Waru tom yaya kange performance]

Rumsey, Alan. 1995. Pairing and Parallelism in the New Guinea Highlands. In SALSA II: Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium about Language and Society, Austin, ed. Pamela Silberman and Jonathan Loftin, pp. 108-18. Texas Linguistic Forum, 34. Austin: University of Texas. [Compares aspects of el ung (‘arrow talk’) oratory and tom yaya kange chanted narrative; includes transcript and analysis of part of Melpa kang rom performance]

---- 2001. Tom Yaya Kange: A Metrical Narrative Genre from the New Guinea Highlands. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11 (2): 193-239.

---- 2002. Aspects of Ku Waru Ethnosyntax and Social Life. In Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture, ed. Nicholas J. Enfield, pp. 259-86. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Compares some aspects of the el ung (‘arrow talk’) and tom yaya kange (chanted narrative) genres and relates these to the more general Ku Waru emphasis on pairing]

---- forthcoming 2005. See Section 5. below. [includes discussion of Ku Waru tom yaya kange and Melpa kang rom]

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern 2002. See Section 5. below. [for discussion of Melpa kang rom see pp. 122-135]

Strathern, Andrew. 1998. Highland Region of Papua New Guinea: Western Highlands Province: Melpa. In Australia and the Pacific Islands, ed. Adrienne L. Kaeppler and J. W. Love, pp. 516–22. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 9. New York: Garland Publishing. [contains information on kang rom including sample texts and translations]

Strathern, Andrew J., and Pamela J. Stewart. 1997. See Section 5. below [includes discussion of Melpa kang rom, pp. 1-11]

---- 2000. Melpa Ballads as Popular Performance Art. In Papers from Ivilikou: Papua New Guinea Music Conference & Festival (1997), ed. Don Niles and Denis Crowdy, pp. 76-84. Boroko: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies and University of Papua New Guinea.

---- 2002. See Section 5. below. [see pp. 49-52, Sung Ballads from the Hagen and Duna Areas of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea]

5. Comparative studies including discussion of chanted tale genres from two or more of the above language areas:

Rumsey, Alan. forthcoming 2005. Chanted Tales in the New Guinea Highlands of Today: A Comparative Study. In Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, ed. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. London: Ashgate Publishing. [compares Ku Waru tom yaya kange, Duna pikono and Huli bi te with respect to the framing of narrated events in relation to the contemporary setting]

Strathern, Andrew J., and Pamela J. Stewart. 1997. Ballads as Popular Performance Art in Papua New Guinea and Scotland. JCU, Centre for Pacific Studies Discussion Papers Series, No. 2. (School of Anthropology and Archaeology, James Cook University of North Queensland). [compares Melpa kang rom, and Huli bi te, Trobriands yaulabuta sung poetry and Scotish border ballads.]

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern 2002. Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea. Westport, Connecticut, and London: Praeger. [compares Duna pikono and Melpa kang rom, with particular focus on gender constructs and associated aesthetic sensibilities]

Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. 2002. The South-West Pacific. In Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders. Strathern, Andrew, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg, and Cluny Macpherson, pp. 11-98. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. [See pp. 49-52, Sung Ballads from the Hagen and Duna Areas of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.]

---- forthcoming 2005. Introduction: Expressive Genres in Historical Change. In Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, eds. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Chapter 1. For the Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series. London: Ashgate Publishing.