Author: Weiner, James F.
Title: The Lost Drum : The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond
Description: Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xxi, 199 pp. 8pp photoplates. Binding heavily soiled, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Object(s) of Myth; Caducity: The Little Other Myth; The Time of Analysis: Convention & Motivation in Foi Myth; The Space & Time of Sexuality; Detachment & Containment: The Hunger People; The Lost Drum; The Stolen String Bag; The Origin of Petroleum at Lake Kutubu; Afterword: The Resistance of Myth.

Keywords: Papua New Guinea, Foi Ethnography, Cultural, Social Anthropology, Melanesia, Myth, Mythology, Sexuality,