Potent Landscapes : Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Allerton, Catherine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
American ORT Federation
Landschaft
Sozialraum
Manggarai
Cultural landscapes
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Manggarai (Indonesian people) > Social life and customs.
Cultural landscapes > Indonesia > Manggarai.
Indonesia > Manggarai.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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