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Tungaru Traditions : Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grimble, Arthur Francis.
- Series:
- Pacific Islands Monograph Series
- Pacific Islands Monograph Series ; v.16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Kiribati.
- Ethnology.
- Kiribati--Social life and customs.
- Kiribati.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Tungaru Traditions
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- Grimble's ethnographic studies of the Gilbertese, prepared between 1916 and 1926, provide an excellent baseline account of a fundamentally pre-contact culture. This collection, edited and introduced by H.E. Maude, comprises essays on mythology, history, and dancing; four chapters on the Maneaba; and organized field notes.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Tungaru Traditions
- Editor's Note
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Figures
- Photographs
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Gilbert Islands
- Prefixes
- Clans and Ancestor-Spirits
- A. F. Grimble as an Anthropologist
- The Grimble Papers
- Notes on Gilbertese Culture
- Adoption
- Adoption as Nati or Tibu
- Successive Adoptions as Tibu
- Adoption Butaritari
- Te toba 'fosterage'
- Te tibutibu
- Te natinati
- Adoption Takeuta, aged 80, Marakei
- Adoption of Nati as Tibu Abaiang
- Adoption of Strangers Banaba
- Agricultural Rituals
- Te Rabu (te Kaoanikai) Tabaua, Tarawa
- Preparation of material for the rabu
- Te Rabu (te Bue) Butaritari
- Te Bitanikai 'the Magic Staff' Marakei
- A Spell to Make Your Land Fruitful
- The Fructification of the Pandanus
- Stage 1 (Moon's seventh day)
- Stage 2 (Moon's thirteenth day)
- The Kabubu First-Fruits Ritual Marakei
- Offering of Pandanus First-Fruits to Karongoa Tarawa
- A Ritual Meal in Time of Famine
- Ancestor Cult
- Significance of Ceremonial Boua
- Skull Cults
- Cult of Teweia of Beru Teitirere, Marakei
- Cult of Uakeia and Kaburoronteun Marakei
- Prayer to Nei Kanna Natau, Marakei
- Prayer to an Utu Ancestor Made at His Boua Tam, aged about 52, Marakei
- Ancestral Lands
- Butaritari Land Names: Classified by Association
- Names derived from natural accidents
- Names derived from historical or legendary associations
- Events
- Mythical associations
- Religio-mythical associations
- Religious associations
- Ancestral lands
- Other islands
- Other countries
- Butaritari Land Names (association, if any, unascertained)
- Lands Mentioned in Gilbertese Oral Tradition
- Southern lands
- Eastern lands
- Western lands
- Gilbertese Place Names Compared with Those in the East Indies
- People from the West Onotoa.
- The Story of Obaia-te-Buraerae Butaritari
- Locality of Mone Butaritari
- Auriaria, Nei Tituabine, and the Land of Matang Banaba
- Animals
- Cats Butaritari
- Dogs
- Archaeology
- The Terraces on Banaba
- Stone Monuments Banaba
- Birth
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Birth on Butaritari
- Birth on Nonouti
- Te Wauna 'Death Magic' Nei Tekotara (about 65), Marakei
- Bonotana 'the antidote'
- Body Care and Adornment
- Beauty Treatment for Children
- Ear Piercing
- Pubic Hair
- Incision
- Canoes and Navigation
- Terms for Landfall
- Sea-Marks (Betia)
- Safety Limit (Toki) to Westward
- Changes in Canoe Types
- Ceremonies Observed at Launching a New Canoe Abaiang
- Conveyance and Inheritance
- Land Conveyances Butaritari
- Succession of Eldest Son and Descendants Butaritari
- Inheritance in Plural Marriage Butaritari
- Te Bainaine Butaritari
- Inheritance Banaba
- Ownership and Inheritance of Bangabanga Banaba
- Ownership
- Inheritance
- Alienation of rights
- Newly discovered bangabanga
- Death
- The Tabeatu Ceremony Tautam, Northern Gilberts
- The Amulet of Kanawa Bark Northern Gilberts
- The Amulet for Persons of High Birth Tarawa
- The Body Butaritari
- Mummification of Chiefs Butaritari
- Disposal of the Body Rewi of Uma, Banaba
- Burial Butaritari
- Burial at Sea or in Rocks Butaritari and Makin
- Burial in the Sitting Position Abaiang
- Burial in the Sitting Position Marakei
- Sitting Interment Marakei
- Sitting Interment and Sun Cult
- Orientation Abaiang
- Orientation Abemama
- Departure of the Ghost Northern Gilberts
- Destination of a Woman's Ghost Butaritari
- Laying the Ghost Gilberts generally
- Return of the Ghost Gilberts generally
- Death Myths Makin
- Gods
- Thunder-Gods
- Nei Tituabine
- Cult of Tabakea
- Skill of the Gods in Dancing
- History.
- Genealogy of the Early High Chiefs of Tarawa
- Settlement of Butaritari by Rairaueana Nei Biria, Butaritari
- Secrecy of Clan Traditions
- The Beru Conquerors on Marakei
- The Advent of Europeans Written in English by an anonymous Gilbertese Butaritari
- Magic
- Types of Magic
- Magic and Prayer
- Te Kanangaraoi: To Bring Good Luck to an Enterprise
- Te Taibenau: For Good Fortune
- Te Kauti: To Make One Brave and Strong in War
- Magic for Protection in Battle
- Magic for Protection at Sea
- Calling the Porpoises Kitina, Butaritari
- Magic for Cockfighters
- Sun Magic (te Kanangaraoi) Takeuta, Marakei
- Sun and Moon Magic: To Be Popular Takeuta, aged about 70, Marakei
- Sun Magic: A Fisherman's Invocation to the Sun Nei Taure, aged between 50 and 60, Marakei
- Magic to Cause an Eclipse
- Na Kimoa Magic to Procure Women
- A Woman's Spell to Procure a Particular Man
- Te Katebo n Rara: Women's Spell to Procure a Constant Lover
- Te Aonikie: Women's Spell to Assure a Lover's Constancy
- Te Kaiwa: To Test If You Are Loved
- Te Kaimaira: Spell to Separate Lovers
- Sun and Moon Magic: To Bring Back a Dissatisfied Wife Ten Tomi, Marakei
- Te Binobino: To Reinforce the Effect of Other Spells
- Prayer to the Moon
- The Maneaba
- Succession to the Boti Marakei
- Functions of Boti in Tabiang-type Maneaba
- Karongoa n Uea
- Karongoa Raereke
- Nukumauea
- A babou
- Tabukaokao, Karumaetoa, and Tekirikiri
- Tabiang
- Tekua
- Tebakabaka
- Maerua
- Kaburara
- Taurawaka
- Keaki
- Distribution of Food in Tabiang-type Maneaba Marakei
- Northern Account of the Building of Maneaba on Beru Makin
- Sanctity of the Maneaba
- Maneaba Divisions Butaritari and Makin
- Covering the Ridge-Pole Marakei
- Covering the Ridge-Pole by the People of Maerua
- Ceremony at the Erection of the Boua Tai.
- Covering the Ridge-Pole Kakeia of Betio, aged about 60, Tarawa
- Notes on the Tabiang-style Maneaba
- The Maungatabu-style Maneaba
- Ababou and Maerua
- Maungatabu building rituals
- Marriage
- Betrothal
- Consanguinity Marakei
- Interfamily Exchange Marriage
- Marriage to Sisters Butaritari
- Marriage of Chiefs Butaritari
- Carrying of Bride Abaiang and Tarawa
- Death of Moa Ni Kie
- Medical Practices
- Diagnosis
- Remedies
- Sore eyes (wai mata)
- Sore ears (wai taninga)
- Cystitis and urethritis
- Sore gums (wira)
- infants cutting teeth
- Poisoned foot through treading on a nou [Scorpionide: a poisonous fish]
- Inflammatory condition of buttocks and genitals among infant girls‚ (ba)
- Boils and sprains
- Poisoned sores
- Splinters or thorns
- Bone-setting Tem Maere, son of Ereata and grandson of Teruruai, Marakei
- Feverishness (te Kabuoki te Mariri)
- Gonorrhoea: A Post-Contact Treatment
- Cures for Rikinibiroto 'Distended Stomach', i.e., Dyspepsia Nui
- For Expectant Mothers
- Names
- Exchange of Names
- Use of Tiki as Names
- Relationships
- Terms of Relationship
- Butika
- Animosity between Butika
- Relationship Butaritari
- Relationship Banaba
- Relatives Ponga of Nanomanga, Ellice Islands
- Functions of Relatives Pine of Nanumea, Ellice Islands
- Social and Political Organization
- Political Structure
- Character of democratic government
- Character of aristocratic government
- Rights and Privileges over Land of the Various Social Groups on Butaritari
- Te uea 'the high chief'
- Te toka 'the chief'
- Te toro 'the serf'
- High Chief-Rights Butaritari
- Slave, or Working Class Butaritari
- Chiefship Banaba
- Reconciliation of a Family Quarrel Banaba
- Education of Boys
- Ukeukenei
- Baremau
- Importance of Sister's Son
- Sorcery.
- Te Wawi: By Means of te Keketi Takeuta, aged 68-75, Marakei
- Te Wawi: On a Cooking Fire
- Te Wawi: On a Victim's Food Takeuta, aged 68-75, Marakei
- Te Wawi: To Kill Your Son's Enemy
- Death Magic against an Enemy Who Wounds You
- Te Wawi: An Antidote Katutu of Tuarabu, aged about 60, Tarawa
- Protective Magic against te Wawi
- Protective Magic (Bonotan te Wawi) Takeuta, aged 68-75, Marakei
- Sun Magic: To Protect against an Enemy's Magic
- Tinaba and Eiriki
- Preference for the Mother-in-law's Brother (1)
- Preference for the Mother-in-law's Brother (2)
- Preference for the Mother-in-law's Brother (3)
- Tinaba Relations with the Wife's Mother
- Tinaba Butaritari
- Tinaba Marakei
- Tinaba Abaiang
- Tinaba Relations with Son's Wife Tarawa
- Tinaba Relationships in Cases of Adoption as Tibu
- Examples
- Tinaba Relationships: Similarity with Lalagi on Pentecost
- Tinaba: A Conjectural Historical Reconstruction
- First stage
- Second stage
- Third stage
- The Relationship of Eiriki
- Eiriki relations between brother's wife (m.s.) and husband's brother (w.s.)
- Eiriki relations among brothers and their wives
- Procedure
- Eiriki relations between wife's sisters and sister's husband
- Tauanikai and eiriki
- The Function of the Maneaba in Gilbertese Society
- Various Types of Maneaba
- The Maneaba as an Index to Social Groupings
- The Boti in the Maneaba of Butaritari and Makin
- Descent in the Boti
- Marriage and the Boti Organization
- Precedence and Privileges of the Clans in the Maneaba
- Precedence of the Clans in the Maungatabu and Tabiang Maneaba
- Traditional Origins of the Maneaba
- The Clan and the Totem
- Essays on Mythology, History, and Dancing
- The Historical Content of Gilbertese Mythology
- The Strata of Gilbertese Myth
- The Nareau Exploits
- Naubwebwe Traditions.
- The Fools and Deaf-Mutes (Baba ma Bono).
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780824882228
- 0824882229
- 9780824882235
- 0824882237
- OCLC:
- 1531325842
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