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Title Poetic power of place : comparative perspectives on Austronesian ideas of locality / edited by James J. Fox.

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Canberra : ANU E Press, 2006.

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Place and landscape in comparative Austronesian perspective / James J. Fox -- The water that blesses, the river that flows: place and the ritual imagination among The Temanambondro Of southeast Madagascar / Philip Thomas -- Remembering origins: ancestors and places in the Gumai society Of south Sumatra / Minako Sakai -- The contested landscapes of myth and history in Tana Toraja / Roxana Waterson -- Genealogy and topogeny: towards an ethnography of Rotinese ritual place names / James J. Fox -- Mapping with metaphor: cultural topographies in West Timor / Andrew McWilliam -- Knowing your place: representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape / Barbara Dix Grimes -- Speaking of places: spatial poesis and localized identity in Buli / Nils Bubandt -- From the poetics of place to the politics of space: redefining cultural landscapes on Damer, Maluku Tenggara / Sandra Pannell -- Seating the place: tropes of body, movement and space for the people of Lelet Plateau, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) / Richard Eves.
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
Language	English.
Subject	Place (Philosophy)
	Sacred space -- Madagascar.
	Sacred space -- Indonesia.
	Sacred space -- Papua New Guinea.
	Lieux sacrés -- Indonésie.
	Lieux sacrés -- Madagascar.
	Lieux sacrés -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
	Lieu (Philosophie)
	Ethnic studies.
	Social groups.
	Society and culture: general.
	Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	Place (Philosophy)
	Sacred space
	Indonesia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrbVHmQ674B9vYY3X8G3
	Madagascar https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJw4FYPqmtpTrHb9wvMgKd
	Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
Indexed Term	Philosophy
	Sacred space
	Place
	Madagascar
	Indonesia
	Papua new guinea
Added Author	Fox, James J., 1940-
	Australian National University. Department of Anthropology.
	Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project.
Other Form:	Print version: 0731528417
ISBN	9781920942861 (electronic bk.)
	1920942866 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	AU@ 000040943648
	AU@ 000058392003
	AU@ 000060580781
	GBVCP 1008650625
	GBVCP 865752087
	AU@ 000069181981