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

在巴布亚新几内亚高地的一大片地区，流传着大量吟诵故事的传统。这些都是目前澳大利亚国立大学ARC发现项目的主题，该项目既关注这些体裁的诗歌特征，也关注它们的政治用途。我们寻求通过Joseph Ketan博士的参与来扩大这个项目，他是一位具有独特资格的人类学家，因为他来自项目区域，对当地的吟诵故事类型及其在竞选活动中的使用背景有深入的了解，并且在政治人类学的相关领域有广泛的研究。该项目将有助于语言艺术的跨文化研究，以及对巴布亚新几内亚当代选举政治的理解。

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.