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Other Publications focusing partly or wholly on tom yaya sung tales
Rumsey, Alan. (2001). Tom Yaya Kange: A metrical narrative genre from the New Guinea Highlands.
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11(2):193-239.
https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2001.11.2.193
Rumsey, Alan. (2006). Verbal art, politics and personal style in Highland New Guinea and beyond. In Catherine O'Neil, Mary Scoggin, & Kevin Tuite (Eds.),
Language, culture, and the individual: A tribute to Paul Friedrich, pp. 319-346. Munich: Lincom Europa. Available at:
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/84290
Rumsey, Alan. (2006). The articulation of indigenous and exogenous orders in Highland New Guinea and beyond.
TheAustralian Journal of Anthropology 17(1):47-69.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2006.tb00047.x Rumsey, Alan. (2010). A metrical system that defies description by ordinary means. In John Bowden; Nikolaus P. Himmelmann; & Malcolm Ross (Eds.),
A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space:
Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley, pp. 38-56. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
https://doi.org/10.15144/PL-615