3 The Memorization of an Oral Text on the Foundation Tale

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Content XIII
3. Acknowledgements XVII
4. Part A: Introduction
5. 1 Prologue 1
6. 2 Nowau Memory 16
7. 3 The Memorization of an Oral Text on the Foundation Tale 25
8. 4 Warp and Weft of the Foundation Tale: Forms of Memorization and Conservation 49
9. 5 The First Being, or Axiom: Schema, Structure, and Ancestral Mothers 56
10. 6 The Notion-Image of Schema and Model: A Hypothesis in the Composition of an Oral Text from the Foundation Tale 70
11. 7 The Thinker and Maker of the Schema on the Foundation Tale: One or Several Authors? 78
12. 8 The Schema of the Oral Text of the Foundation Tale and Its Interpretative Models 88
13. 9 Schema as a ‘Toolbox’ for Composing an Oral Text Based on the Foundation Tale 103
14. 10 Epilogue: The Kula Rite as a ‘Rebellion of Intellect’ 121
15. The Criteria Followed in Editing the Oral Texts on the Foundation Tale 137
16. A Short Note on Nowau 143
17. Nowau Phonetic Alphabet 146
18. Signorum Explicatio 147
19. Part B: Texts 1–41
20. 1 Togeruwa Matawadia 153
21. 2 Kadavagisaguyau Mwagula Tosulala 163
22. 3 Bomũkuyobu Kaidoga Mwagula 246
23. 4 Mwaivada Gumũkautu 262
24. 5 Geredou Modigalobu 276
25. 6 Tokuraeïya Modigalobu 287
26. 7 Uniweni Daburisi 294
27. 8 Bulema Tobeduïya 318
28. 9 Mateïya Matanogi 344
29. 10 Kaiulala Kadora 352
30. 11 Damũramwara Mũlopuwelu 358
31. 12 Pilimoni Togebova 384
32. 13 Mwadagula Kaberisi 392
33. 14 Daburisi Kurina 416
34. 15 Sabewa Kasiotagina 426
35. 16 Dedayoura Kurina 443
36. 17 Togenuwa Tosemwana 460
37. 18 Karumwana Bokalodu 468
38. 19 Nïyeba Bokalodu 478
39. 20 Sïyakwakwa Teitei 483
40. Portrait Gallery 522
41. Lexicon Nowau – English 527
42. Concordances. Part 1 589
43. Concordances. Part 2 700
44. Selected Bibliography 989
45. Index 1001