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Books
about the Bosavi people
(in order of year of publication)
The
Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers.
Edward L. Schieffelin. St. Martins Press, 1976.
A study
of Bosavis gisalo ceremony and of the role of ritual in Bosavi social
life.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312745508/qid=1004765267/sr=12-1/002-9007330-8965606
Sound
and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression.
Steven Feld. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982; second
edition 1990.
A study of how rainforest ecology is deeply connected to the cosmology,
poetry and music of the Bosavi people.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812212991/qid=1004765115/sr=12-2/002-9007330-8965606
The
Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children.
Bambi B. Schieffelin. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
A study of how Bosavi children acquire language in the context of other
cultural practices.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521386543/qid=1004765600/sr=12-3/002-9007330-8965606
Like
People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies.
Edward L. Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden. Stanford University Press
1991.
A study of first contact in Bosavi and the surrounding Great Papuan Plateau
and Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804718997/qid=1004765443/sr=12-2/002-9007330-8965606
Bosavi-English-Tok-Pisin
Dictionary.
Bambi B. Schieffelin and Steven Feld, in collaboration with Ho:ido:
Degelo:, Ho:nowo: Degili, Kulu Fuale, Ayasilo Ha:ina, and Da:ina Ha:waba:.
Australian National University, Pacific Linguistics C-153, 1998.
A trilingual dictionary of the Bosavi language.
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/C-153.html
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