The polymathic obsessions of

Thomas H. Slone (THS)...

Melanesia

• Tok Nogut: An Introduction to Malediction in Papua New Guinea (by THS), Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression 11: 75-104 (1996).
  "... un eccellente esempio del genere..." (from a review in La Stampa by Alessandro Barbero, Professor of History, University of Rome, January 15, 1996)
• A comparison of price, rarity and cost of butterfly specimens: Implications for the insect trade and for habitat conservation (by THS, Larry J. Orsak, and Olaf Malver), Ecological Economics (21:77-85, 1997). See abstract. Data in this article is for Papua New Guinean butterflies. An earlier article, "Killing butterflies to save butterflies," on this general topic was written by L. J. Orsak.
• One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights (by THS, manuscript completed). This is a large collection of folk tales that I have translated from Papua New Guinea Pidgin English (Tok Pisin) into English. This book will be published by my company, Masalai Press in October 2001.
• An annotated bibliography of New Guinean folklore
• A bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books and study guides
• Where Is that Papua New Guinean Village?
• I am the editor for the Pidgin and Creole Languages and Tok Pisin sections of dmoz.org.
• I am a contributor to the new revision of Mihalic’s Tok Pisin dictionary.

Useful pointers:

• Pacific Islands Internet Resources
• Pacific Islands Resources: Melanesia
• Papua New Guinea Virtual Library
• Papua New Guinea Online
• Gaia Forest Conservation Archives (with substantial information about Papua New Guinea forests)
• Kami Wantok’s Forum

Slang, Pidgin Englishes, and English Creoles

• An annotated bibliography of Rastafarian Speech
• A Bibliography of References Pertaining to Prokem
• Prokem: An Analysis of a Jakartan Slang. By Thomas H. Slone (2003). Oakland, CA: Masalai Press, 95 pp.
• Rasta Is Cuss: A Dictionary of Rastafarian Cursing. By Thomas H. Slone (2003). Oakland, CA: Masalai Press, 95 pp.
• Tok Nogut (see above)

Feminist Folktales

A bibliography of feminist folktales.

Punk

A punk rock bibliography.

Useful pointers:

• A reference guide for pidgin and creole languages
• A collection of slang dictionaries

Entomology

• Insects in Chinese medicine (by THS), Food Insects Newsletter 4(3): 5 1991.
• A comparison of price, rarity and cost of butterfly specimens (see above)
  

Useful pointers:

• Montes Azules (a butterfly ranching project in Mexico)
• Earthwatch (offers some entomology projects which accept volunteers)

Various Odd Bits:

• The San Francisco Cacophony Society (You may already be a member.): Source of annoyance for some, source of confusion for most

  Some Cacophony events of superficially dubious social relevance in which I have participated

  • Cheap Suit Santa
  • The Sewer Tour
  • The Exquisite Corpse (drinks the new wine)
  • Kill your TV
  • Saint Stupid’s Day Parade

Can the corporate homogenization of culture be reversed?

• The first step...
• A Rough Draft (This is not a Cacophony link.)
• Negativ(land).
• Cultural Survival?

Work

• The Carcinogenic Potency Database Project
• My other publications
• The University of California at Berkeley
• E. O. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
• Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
• E-mail: (THSlone@yahoo.com)

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