Sexual Snakes, Winged Maidens and Sky Gods

Sexual Snakes, Winged Maidens and Sky Gods is a collective homage to Claude Lévi-Strauss who marked his 100th birthday in November this year, 2008. Edited by Serge Dunis and with a preface by Jean Guiart, the book brings together a constellation of international writers, including Ben Finney and Ward Goodenough who, in their various specialist spheres, give us their individual interpretations of Pacific mythology. From Papua-New Guinea to Easter Island, and spanning Micronesia, Island Melanesia and Western, as well as Eastern, Polynesia comes to us their multi-voiced chorus to celebrate this ocean-covered third of the globe.