Melpa Kang Rom: A chanted narrative genre from Highland New Guinea and its role in contemporary electoral politics.

在巴新高地的一大片地区，有欣欣向荣的传统圣歌故事。这些是目前ANU ARC Discovery项目的主题，该项目专注于这些流派的诗意特征和它们的政治用途。我们寻求通过约瑟夫·凯坦博士的参与来加强这一项目，他是一位具有独特资格的人类学家，因为他来自项目地区，具有对当地圣歌故事流派及其在竞选活动中使用的背景的内部知识，并在政治人类学的相关领域进行了广泛的先前研究。该项目将有助于对口头艺术的跨文化研究，以及对巴新当代选举政治的理解和理解。

Across a large region of Highland PNG there are flourishing traditions of chanted tales. These are the subject of a current ARC Discovery project based at ANU, which focuses on both the poetic features of these genres and on their political uses. We seek to augment this project through the participation of Dr. Joseph Ketan, an anthropologist with unique qualifications in that he comes from the project area, with an insider's knowledge of a local genre of chanted tales and its contexts of use in electoral campaigns, and with extensive previous research in relevant areas of political anthropology. The project will contribute to the cross-cultural study of verbal art, and to and the understanding of contemporary electoral politics in PNG.