Forthcoming: The material culture of the Teop people on Bougainville: Texts on plants, house building, canoes and fishing

Synopsis

In this text collection, nine Teop authors and one Teop graphic artist document the use of palms, trees, bamboo and other plants in their material culture. 

The book consists of six main parts. Following the introductory chapters on the Teop language and the historical context of the text collection in Part I, Parts II to V contain 32 Teop texts with illustrations and English translations on the topics of plants, house-building, canoe-building and traditional fishing techniques. Part VI provides all the Teop texts and their translations, with an additional linguistic analysis and glossing of each word in interlinearized format.

The chapters in Part I and the brief introductions to the texts in Parts II to V are by the editor, who also produced the English translations in collaboration with the Teop authors, as well as the linguistic analysis and glossing in Part VI.

 

Author Biography

Ulrike Mosel

Ulrike Mosel is a Professor Emerita at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany. After studying Semitic languages, she specialised in Austronesian languages. Her book publications include a collection of Tolai texts (1977); an analyzis of the mutual influence between Tolai and Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (1980, 1984) and, together with Even Hovdhaugen, the Samoan Reference Grammar (1992). Since 2000 she has been working on the documentation of the Teop language in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and published A Multifunctional Teop Dictionary in 2019. Her articles focus on corpus-based grammaticography and lexicography.

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Published

June 25, 2026
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Online ISSN

3052-9956

Print ISSN

3052-9948
Cite as
Mosel, Ulrike. Forthcoming. The material culture of the Teop people on Bougainville: Texts on plants, house building, canoes and fishing. (Open Text Collections). Berlin: Language Science Press.

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