Poetic power of place
Subtitle: comparative perspectives on Austronesian ideas of locality
By: edited by James J. Fox
Contributors: Australian National University. Department of Anthropology; Comparative Austronesian Project
Series: Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology (in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project), Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University; Occasional paper (Australian National University. Dept. of Anthropology)
Publisher: Dept. of Anthropology, Australian National University
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781920942861
Subjects: Sacred space; Place (Philosophy)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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