The Poetic Power of Place
Subtitle: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Canberra
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Ethnic studies
Description: This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Each paper describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in which social knowledge is vested, maintained and transformed in a particular landscape. The intention of the volume is to consider common patterns in the representation of place among Austronesian-speaking populations.
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