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Island rivers : fresh water and place in Oceania /
"Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, ACT :
ANU Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Asia-Pacific environment monograph ;
13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ch. 1. Introduction: River as Ethnographic Subject / John R. Wagner, Jerry K. Jacka, Edvard Hviding, Alexander Mawyer and Marama Muru-Lanning
- ch. 2. The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon / Edvard Hviding
- ch. 3. A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: The Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu / Carlos Mondragon
- ch. 4. Unflowing Pasts, Lost Springs and Watery Mysteries in Eastern Polynesia / Alexander Mawyer
- ch. 5. Riverine Disposal of Mining Wastes in Porgera: Capitalist Resource Development and Metabolic Rifts in Papua New Guinea / Jerry K. Jacka
- ch. 6. 'At Every Bend a Chief, At Every Bend a Chief, Waikato of One Hundred Chiefs': Mapping the Socio-Political Life of the Waikato River / Marama Muru-Lanning
- ch. 7. Waters of Destruction: Mythical Creatures, Boiling Pots and Tourist Encounters at Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai'i / Eilin Holtan Torgersen
- ch. 8. The Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: Nourishing Tradition and Modern Catastrophe / Eric K. Silverman
- ch. 9. Rivers of Memory and Forgetting / John R. Wagner.