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Box inscription: Side A: Maenaa’adi 15/8/89 - gulanga, gelema love magic, nunui’ola, life story -> so’o (28). Side B: Blank.

• 15 August 1989

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

Located in Series 7) Solomon Islands - Sound Recordings, subseries B) Audiocassettes. Arranged in numbered order from 1 to 181.

This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Roger Keesing Papers (Box 54, Folder 9).

Audio cassette tape

Batamani Maenaa’adi, a man from Saua ('Aisi'ina, Furi’isi’ina) in the mountains behind Sinalagu Harbour, worked extensively with Keesing. He was still living in 2020.
Nunui’ola is the shade of a dead person; gulanga means curing; gelema means sorcery; some consider love magic a kind of sorcery. So’o (literally "pick up") is a type of sorcery performed on found objects associated with the victim.

• Malaita (Solomon Islands)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Solomon Islands

• Maenaa’adi, Batamani

• Curing
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Magic
• Sorcery

• image
• sound recording

Online finding aid

• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-15