#Martin Monumwetola

[accuratepicuresofanthropologists]

Sergio Jarillo has a new open access book on folktales and mythical stories from the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea! The book takes a series of stories collected by Jerry Leach and hosted in the archives at the Smithsonian and reconnects it to the local community. You may know the Trobes as the home of Kula as described by Malinowski, but there is a whole lot more to the place than that, as this detailed and profusely illustrated text shows. Get ready, though -- this is some hardcore text-collection work, not a lightly-written popular account of the Trobes.

“Part of the translation team posing in front of the Faculty of Arts and Law at UPNG. From left: Veronica Lepani, Lawrence Mwayubu, Martin Monumwetola, Raymond Kariyawagatetu, Jerry Leach, and Henry Lupovalu.” in 1973