Publications

Publication details [#13939]

Senft, Gunter. 2001. 'Kevalikuliku': Earthquake Magic from the Trobriand Islands (for Unshakeables). In Pawley, Andrew, Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryo, eds. The boy from Bundaberg Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton. (Pacific Linguistics Series 514). Australian National University. pp. 323–331.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

magic

Place, Publisher

Australian National University

Annotation

This paper presents a magical formula for earthquake magic, comments on it and briefly discusses the role of such formulae as one of many forms of ritual communication on the Trobriand Islands.