Emplaced myth : space, narrative, and knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea / edited by Alan Rumsey and James Weiner.
Contributor(s): Rumsey, Alan
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TextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001Description: vii, 281 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0824823893 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0824816633 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Congresses | Papuans -- Land tenure -- Congresses | Philosophy, Papuan -- Congresses | Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Congresses | Sacred space -- Melanesia -- Congresses | Sacred space -- Australia -- CongressesDDC classification: 305.89/915 LOC classification: GN666 | .E52 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Volume arose from papers presented at "From Myth to Minerals: Place, Narrative, Land, and Transformation in Australia and Papua New Guinea" held in Canberra at the Australian National University, July 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracks, traces, and links to land in aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and beyond / Alan Rumsey -- The politics of religious secrecy / Jürg Wassmann -- Condensed mapping: myth and the folding of space/space and the folding of myth / Roy Wagner -- Origins versus creative powers: the interplay of movement and fixity / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Sacred site, ancestral clearing, and environmental ethics / Deborah Bird Rose -- Places that move / Anthony Redmond -- Strangelove's dilemma: or, what kind of secrecy do the Ngarrindjeri practice? / James F. Weiner -- The underground life of capitalism: space, persons, and money in Bali (West New Britain) / Andrew Lattas -- From totemic space to cyberspace: transformations in Sepik river and aboriginal Australian myth, knowledge, and art / Eric Kline Silverman -- The object in view: aborigines, Melanesians, and museums / Lissant Bolton.