An annotated bibliography of Enga Province folklore

Below is an annotated bibliography of Enga Province folklore. See the main bibliography page for more details. Please send comments and corrections to me.

A “*” following a reference indicates that I have not seen.

• Anonymous (1973). “Kandep School Children, Legends and Fables.” Oral History 1(2): 17-55. This article presents myths of the Enga People. *
• Biersack, A. (1998). “Sacrifice and regeneration among Ipilis: The view from Tipinini.” In: Goldman et al., pp. 43-66. This chapter discusses the mythology of the Ipili People.
• Clark, J. (1993). Gold, sex, and pollution: male illness and myth at Mt Kare, Papua New Guinea. American Ethnologist 20: 742-757. This article discusses the mythology of the Enga People. *
• Dlugosz [Diugosz?], Maria (1998). Mae Enga myths and Christ’s message: fullness of life in Mae Enga mythology and Christ the life (Jn 10:10). Series: Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini 66. Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 302 pp., illustrated. This was also printed as a thesis at Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana (Vatican City) in 1995. *
• Feil, D. K. (1997). Enga genesis. Journal de la Sociétédes Océanistes 104: 67-78. This articles discusses the mythology of the Enga People. *
• Gibbs, Philip (2007). Chanted tales. Papua New Guinea Yearbook 2007, pp. 47-51, illustrated. This article describes the chanted folktales that from Enga Province and adjacent parts of Southern Highlands Province and Eastern Highlands Province. *
• Gibbs, Philip (1978). Kaunala Tape: Toward a Theological Reflection on a New Guinea Initiation Myth. Master’s Thesis, Catholic Theological Institute, Chicago. *
• Kamimura, Toru (1988). The immigrant hero legends and cosmology among the Saka Enga. Man and Culture in Oceania 4: 91-109. This article discusses the mythology of the Enga People. *
• Kopilyo, Roto (1978). “Wapanamanda District, Enga Province.” Oral History 6(3): 53. This article presents a myth of the Enga People.
• Kyakas, Alome & Wiessner, Polly (1992). From Inside the Women’s House: Enga Women’s Lives and Traditions Brisbane: Robert Brown, 183 pp., illustrated. *
• Ninji, Lucy J. (1977). “From Enga Language, Enga Province.” Oral History 5(3): 115-116. This article presents a myth of the Enga People.
• Lacey, Roderic John (1974). A question of origins: An exploration of some oral traditions of the Enga of New Guinea.” Journal of Pacific History 9: 39-54. This article discusses the mythology of the Enga People. *
• Lacey, Roderic John (1975). Oral Traditions as History: An Exploration of Oral Sources among the Enga of the New Guinea Highlands. University of Wisconsin Ph.D. thesis, 335 pp., illustrated. *
• Lacey, Roderic John (1981). Traditions of origin and migration: Some Enga evidence. In: Denoon, & Lacey, eds., Oral Traditions in Melanesia, pp. 45-55.
• Mai, Paul (1981). “The ’Time of Darkness’ or Yuu Kuia.” In: Denoon & Lacey, eds., Oral Traditions in Melanesia, pp. 45-55. See Blong (1982)
• Meggitt, Mervin J. (1976). “A duplicity of demons: Sexual and familial roles expressed in Western Enga stories.” In: Man and Woman in the New Guinea Highlands, Brown, Paula & Buchbinder, Georgeda, eds. Special Publication Number 8. Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association, pp. 63-85. This chapter discusses the mythology of the Enga People. * Out of print.
• Pulipilya, Stephen (1978). “An Enga Volcano Story.” Oral History 6(3): 54. This article presents a myth of the origin of Lake Birip, from the Enga People.
• Timothy, M., Talyaga, K. T., Amean, A., & Pato, P. (1974a). An Enga tradition about frosts. Oral History 1(2): 2-15. This article discusses the the mythology of the Time of Darkness among the Enga People. *
• Timothy, M., Talyaga, K. T., Amean, A., & Pato, P. (1974b). An Enga clan origin tradition. Oral History 1(2): 15-27. This article discusses the mythology of the Enga People. *
• Wiessner, Polly & Tumu, Akii (1998). Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute Press, 494 pp., illustrated. This book discusses the oral history of the Enga People (pp. 25-42).

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