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The Poetic Power of Place
Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality
Edited by: James J. Fox
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Description
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.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9780731528417
- ISBN (online):
- 9781920942861
- Publication date:
- Sep 2006
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/PPP.09.2006
- Series:
- Comparative Austronesian Series
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Anthropology
- Countries:
- Africa: Madagascar; Pacific: Papua New Guinea; Southeast Asia: Indonesia
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- Place and Landscape in Comparative Austronesian Perspective (PDF, 246KB) – James J. Fox doi
- The Water That Blesses, The River That Flows: Place And The Ritual Imagination Among The Temanambondro Of Southeast Madagascar (PDF, 181KB) – Philip Thomas doi
- Remembering Origins: Ancestors And Places In The Gumai Society Of South Sumatra (PDF, 228KB) – Minako Sakai doi
- The Contested Landscapes of Myth and History in Tana Toraja (PDF, 262KB) – Roxana Waterson doi
- Genealogy and Topogeny: Towards an ethnography of Rotinese ritual place names (PDF, 230KB) – James J. Fox doi
- Mapping With Metaphor: Cultural topographies in West Timor (PDF, 168KB) – Andrew McWilliam doi
- Knowing Your Place: Representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape (PDF, 197KB) – Barbara Dix Grimes doi
- Speaking of Places: Spatial poesis and localized identity in Buli (PDF, 329KB) – Nils Bubandt doi
- From the Poetics of Place to the Politics of Space: Redefining Cultural Landscapes on Damer, Maluku Tenggara (PDF, 139KB) – Sandra Pannell doi
- Seating the Place: Tropes of body, movement and space for the people of Lelet Plateau, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) (PDF, 200KB) – Richard Eves doi
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