This is an original and unique collection of tales and legends from the
Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Recorded by a
thirteen-year old boy from a small and remote rural village, the stories
present a kind of 'indigenous auto ethnography'. Yet, on some pages
people pursue their daily activities, grow food and raise pigs, while on
others the protagonists encounter bush spirits, tap into sources of
unlimited wealth or are transformed into animals. In other words, the
fabulous follows on from the mundane, and what seems prosaic in one
story gives way to the extraordinary in the next. The book could be
recommended for undergraduate and graduate courses on general
anthropology, literature, linguistics, folklore research, myth and
religion, poetry and Pacific studies.