Emplaced Myth : Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea /

Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This volume is the first in-depth work to do just that: it situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framewo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rumsey, Alan (Editor ), Weiner, James F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2000]
Temas:
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure > Congresses.
Papuans > Land tenure > Congresses.
Philosophy, Papuan > Congresses.
Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian > Congresses.
Sacred space > Melanesia > Congresses.
Sacred space > Australia > Congresses.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Terres > Congrès.
Papous > Terres > Congrès.
Philosophie papoue > Congrès.
Philosophie australienne (aborigène) > Congrès.
Lieux sacrés > Australie > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure
Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
Philosophy, Papuan
Sacred space
Australia
Melanesia
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Rumsey, Alan
  • 1. Tracks, Traces, and Links to Land in Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and Beyond / Rumsey, Alan
  • 2. The Politics of Religious Secrecy / Wassmann, Jürg
  • 3. Condensed Mapping: Myth and the Folding of Space / Space and the Folding of Myth / Wagner, Roy
  • 4. Origins versus Creative Powers: The Interplay of Movement and Fixity / Stewart, Pamela J. / Strathern, Andrew
  • 5. Sacred Site, Ancestral Clearing, and Environmental Ethics / Rose, Deborah Bird
  • 6. Places That Move / Redmond, Anthony
  • 7. Strangelove's Dilemma: Or, What Kind of Secrecy Do the Ngarrindjeri Practice? / Weiner, James F.
  • 8. The Underground Life of Capitalism: Space, Persons, and Money in Bali (West New Britain) / Lattas, Andrew
  • 9. From Totemic Space to Cyberspace: Transformations in Sepik River and Aboriginal Australian Myth, Knowledge, and Art / Silverman, Eric Kline
  • 10. The Object in View: Aborigines, Melanesians, and Museums / Bolton, Lissant
  • Afterword / Weiner, James F.
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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