Poetic power of place : comparative perspectives on Austronesian ideas of locality / edited by James J. Fox.
"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 particula...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra :
ANU E Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1920942866 9781920942861 0731528417 9780731528417 |