Emplaced Myth : : Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea / / ed. by Alan Rumsey, James F. Weiner.
Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This volume is the first in-depth work to do just that: it situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framewo...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2000 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Tracks, Traces, and Links to Land in Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and Beyond
- 2. The Politics of Religious Secrecy
- 3. Condensed Mapping: Myth and the Folding of Space / Space and the Folding of Myth
- 4. Origins versus Creative Powers: The Interplay of Movement and Fixity
- 5. Sacred Site, Ancestral Clearing, and Environmental Ethics
- 6. Places That Move
- 7. Strangelove's Dilemma: Or, What Kind of Secrecy Do the Ngarrindjeri Practice?
- 8. The Underground Life of Capitalism: Space, Persons, and Money in Bali (West New Britain)
- 9. From Totemic Space to Cyberspace: Transformations in Sepik River and Aboriginal Australian Myth, Knowledge, and Art
- 10. The Object in View: Aborigines, Melanesians, and Museums
- Afterword
- References
- Contributors
- Index