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Nukeria Creation Story

Anthropos. 2018. Vol. 113. No. 1. P. 115–134.
Davletshin A.

Little is known about the Polynesians of the Nukuria

atoll in Papua New Guinea and the language they speak. This

article presents a Nukeria creation story, that is to say, a narrative

of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

The text was recorded during an expedition in 2013. It is supplied

with linguistic and textual analysis, compared with similar

stories attested in the other Polynesian traditions, and situated

in the ecological and cultural contexts. The article should

be of interest for those who are concerned with languages, mythology,

techniques of storytelling, and historical ethnography

of Polynesia.

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Keywords: Papua New GuineaPolynesian Outlierscreation mythsfolklore motifsPolynesian languages and rhetoric
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