Potent Landscapes : : Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia / / Catherine Allerton; ed. by Rita Smith Kipp, David P. Chandler.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 20 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Shape of the Land
- 1. Rooms: A Place for Souls
- 2. The Permeable House
- 3. Paths of Marriage
- 4. Earth, Stone, Water: The Animate Landscape
- 5. Drum Houses and Village Resettlement
- 6. Roots and Mobility
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author
- Other Volumes in the Series