Emplaced Myth : : Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea / / ed. by Alan Rumsey, James F. Weiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bolton, Lissant,; Lattas, Andrew,; Redmond, Anthony,; Rose, Deborah Bird,; Rumsey, Alan,; Silverman, Eric Kline,; Stewart, Pamela J.,; Strathern, Andrew,; Wagner, Roy,; Wassmann, Jürg,; Weiner, James F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rumsey, Alan,; Weiner, James F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)

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...

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