Departures
Subtitle: how societies distribute their people
By: edited by Jukka Siikala.
Contributors: Siikala, Jukka.; Suomen Antropologinen Seura.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: TAFAS ;; 46; Suomen Antropologisen Seuran toimituksia ;; 46.
Publisher: Finnish Anthropological Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Human beings -- Migrations.; Migrations of nations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Based on a symposium held May 1999 at the University of Helsinki.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Where have all the people gone / Jukka Siikala; title: Founding communities : departures, arrivals, returns and resettlements in West Seram / Christine Boulan-Smit; title: Tilling the soil and sailing the seas :  Cadastral maps and anthropological interpretaions / Jukka Siikala; title: Diaspora vs. Völkenvanderung : the Orang Ulu apparition / Peter Metcalf; title: Asal dari mana? : departures and displacements / James J. Fox; title: Can Palau take place on Guam? : migrants, tradition and the dynamic hierarchy of places / Petra M. Autio; title: Moments of recognition : truth, evidence and the visiting stranger in Kei (East Indonesia) / Timo Kaartinen; title: Some classical Chinese narratives of separation and reunion / Charles Stafford; title: Shamanic journeys and other travels : interplaces and the importation of distant landscapes in Iban constructions of community and self / Clifford Sather; title: Words about the wor(l)d : Ingrian Lutheranism and the (post) Soviet cultural space / Arno Survo; title: Multi-sited research as a departure from regulative ideals of classic fieldwork in anthropology / George E. Marcus.