Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago

Loredana Lancini; Patrick Nunn; Meli Nanuku; Kaliopate Tavola; Taniela Bolea; Paul Geraghty; Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan

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Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago

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Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago

Loredana Lancini, Patrick Nunn, Meli Nanuku, Kaliopate Tavola, Taniela Bolea, Paul Geraghty and Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan

Oral Tradition, Vol.36(1), pp.63-90

2023

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Over the past two decades, it has become clear that culturally grounded stories, once uncritically dismissed as myth or legend, often contain information suggesting that they are informed by observations of memorable events, such as coastal inundation, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and meteorite falls (Nunn and Reid 2016; Nunn 2014; Masse 2007; Piccardi and Masse 2007). The principal value for natural scientists of recognizing these stories for what they are lies in the potential extension of detail, beyond that possible from retrodictive scientific enquiry, about the manifestations of these events and their effects on landscapes and their inhabitants. Understanding the empirical basis of these stories also allows insights into the ways in which people once explained such memorable events and how these explanations were conveyed orally, often exaggerated and reworked, across many generations (Nunn 2018; Taggart 2018; Kelly 2015)—a process characterized as “memory crunch” (Barber and Barber 2004).

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Title: Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago
Authors: Loredana Lancini (Author) - University of Maine
Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
Meli Nanuku (Author) - Fiji Museum
Kaliopate Tavola (Author) - Fiji Museum
Taniela Bolea (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
Paul Geraghty (Author) - University of the South Pacific
Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan (Author) - University of Maine
Publication details: Oral Tradition, Vol.36(1), pp.63-90
Publisher: Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
Date published: 2023
ISSN: 1542-4308
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99736098502621
Output Type: Journal article

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