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1 online resource |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Place and landscape in comparative Austronesian perspective / James J. Fox -- Water that blesses, the river that flows: place and the ritual imagination among The Temanambondro Of southeast Madagascar / Philip Thomas -- Remembering origins: ancestors and places in the Gumai society Of south Sumatra / Minako Sakai -- Contested landscapes of myth and history in Tana Toraja / Roxana Waterson -- Genealogy and topogeny: towards an ethnography of Rotinese ritual place names / James J. Fox -- Mapping with metaphor: cultural topographies in West Timor / Andrew McWilliam -- Knowing your place: representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape / Barbara Dix Grimes -- Speaking of places: spatial poesis and localized identity in Buli / Nils Bubandt -- From the poetics of place to the politics of space: redefining cultural landscapes on Damer, Maluku Tenggara / Sandra Pannell -- Seating the place: tropes of body, movement and space for the people of Lelet Plateau, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) / Richard Eves. |
| Summary |
"This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Each paper describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in which social knowledge is vested, maintained and transformed in a particular landscape. The intention of the volume is to consider common patterns in the representation of place among Austronesian-speaking populations."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Place (Philosophy)
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Place (Philosophy) |
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Sacred space -- Madagascar.
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Sacred space. |
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Madagascar. |
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Sacred space -- Indonesia.
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Indonesia. |
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Sacred space -- Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fox, James J., 1940-
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Australian National University. Department of Anthropology.
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Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project.
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| ISBN |
9781920942861 (electronic book) |
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1920942866 (electronic book) |
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1920942866 |
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