Emplaced myth : space, narrative, and knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea / edited by Alan Rumsey and James Weiner.
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Tracks, Traces, and Links to Land in Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and Beyond
- 2. The Politics of Religious Secrecy
- 3. Condensed Mapping: Myth and the Folding of Space / Space and the Folding of Myth
- 4. Origins versus Creative Powers: The Interplay of Movement and Fixity
- 5. Sacred Site, Ancestral Clearing, and Environmental Ethics
- 6. Places That Move
- 7. Strangelove's Dilemma: Or, What Kind of Secrecy Do the Ngarrindjeri Practice?
- 8. The Underground Life of Capitalism: Space, Persons, and Money in Bali (West New Britain)
- 9. From Totemic Space to Cyberspace: Transformations in Sepik River and Aboriginal Australian Myth, Knowledge, and Art
- 10. The Object in View: Aborigines, Melanesians, and Museums
- Afterword
- References
- Contributors
- Index.