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Potent Landscapes : Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia /

The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Allerton, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The shape of the land
  • Rooms : a place for souls
  • The permeable house
  • Paths of marriage
  • Earth, stone, water : the animate landscape
  • Drum houses and village resettlement
  • Roots and mobility.