Poetic power of place : comparative perspectives on Austronesian ideas of locality /

Poetic power of place : comparative perspectives on Austronesian ideas of locality / edited by James J. Fox. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references.

Place and landscape in comparative Austronesian perspective / The water that blesses, the river that flows: place and the ritual imagination among The Temanambondro Of southeast Madagascar / Remembering origins: ancestors and places in the Gumai society Of south Sumatra / The contested landscapes of myth and history in Tana Toraja / Genealogy and topogeny: towards an ethnography of Rotinese ritual place names / Mapping with metaphor: cultural topographies in West Timor / Knowing your place: representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape / Speaking of places: spatial poesis and localized identity in Buli / From the poetics of place to the politics of space: redefining cultural landscapes on Damer, Maluku Tenggara / Seating the place: tropes of body, movement and space for the people of Lelet Plateau, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) / James J. Fox -- Philip Thomas -- Minako Sakai -- Roxana Waterson -- James J. Fox -- Andrew McWilliam -- Barbara Dix Grimes -- Nils Bubandt -- Sandra Pannell -- Richard Eves.

"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


English.

9781920942861 1920942866

22573/ctt2bcgb2 JSTOR


Place (Philosophy)
Sacred space--Madagascar.
Sacred space--Indonesia.
Sacred space--Papua New Guinea.
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Place (Philosophy)
Sacred space.


Indonesia.
Madagascar.
Papua New Guinea.

Philosophy Sacred space Place Madagascar Indonesia Papua new guinea


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