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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824816636
  • 9780824843946
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89/915 21
LOC classification:
  • GN666 .E52 2001
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and "place"--an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.Contributors: Lissant Boltan, Andrew Lattas, Anthony Redmond, Alan Rumsey, Deborah Bird Rose, Eric Kline Silverman, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Roy Wagner, Jurg Wassmann, James F. Weiner.
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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

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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 framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and "place"--an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.Contributors: Lissant Boltan, Andrew Lattas, Anthony Redmond, Alan Rumsey, Deborah Bird Rose, Eric Kline Silverman, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Roy Wagner, Jurg Wassmann, James F. Weiner.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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