The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality

By James J. Fox

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0731528417
• ISBN13: 9780731528417
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"