Manu narratives of Polynesia A comparative study of birds ...

Manu narratives of Polynesia A comparative study of birds in 300 traditional Polynesian stories

Raphael Richter-Gravier

Volume II

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

At the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand And l'Universit? de la Polyn?sie fran?aise, Tahiti

March 2019

Table of contents

Appendix 1: Manu corpus

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Stories from Chapter IV

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Stories from Chapter V

35

Stories from Chapter VI

67

Stories from Chapter VII

87

Stories from Chapter VIII

109

Stories from Chapter IX

144

Stories from Chapter X

163

Indices

187

Index of story origins (listed by island/island group)

188

Index of personal names

190

Index of place names

202

Index of non-bird animal species

206

List of references

207

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Appendix 1: Manu corpus Where there exists a variant of a given story coming from a different island or island group than that story (which is the case for 37 of the 300 narratives), the same story number is assigned to that variant but a letter is added to the number for ease of identification. For instance, 5 encompasses all the different versions of a particular Tongan story, 5A encompasses all the different Tokelauan versions of a story similar to the Tongan one, and the Fijian story similar to the Tongan and Tokelauan ones is classed under 5B. In some cases it is debatable whether two stories are variants of the same story or should really be separated, but in such unclear cases it is hoped that grouping more or less similar stories under the same number in this fashion will facilitate comparisons between them.

Under the same number, `variants' are texts in which a significant number of elements differ, whereas I have termed `similar versions' the texts in which most of the narrative elements are the same.

As for the stories from outside Polynesia that appear in the thesis (mainly in the footnotes), those have not been assigned a number.

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