The Poetic Power of Place Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality

The Poetic Power of Place Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality

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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 land...

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Main Author: J. Fox, James (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2006
Subjects:
Ethnic studies
philosophy
papua new guinea
indonesia
madagascar
place
sacred space
Austronesian languages
Buru
Deixis
Genealogy
Toraja
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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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (196 p.)
ISBN:OAPEN_459444
Access:Open Access

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