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Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea

Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea

Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This work situates the ethnography of the two areas in a comparative framework.

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ISBN 9780824823894
Published 30 June 2002 by University of Hawai'i Press
Format Trade Paperback/Paperback
Author(s) Edited by Rumsey, Alan
Edited by Weiner, James F.
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ISBN-13 9780824823894
ISBN-10 0824823893
Stock Ready to ship - Less than 10 items
Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
Publication Date 30 June 2002
Publication Country United States United States
Format Trade Paperback/Paperback
Author(s) Edited by Rumsey, Alan
Edited by Weiner, James F.
Category Australian & Pacific History
Area / Regional Studies
Indigenous Peoples
Anthropology
Ethnography
Biological Anthropology
Melanesia
Interest Age All ages
Reading Age All ages
Library of Congress Land tenure, Sacred space, Australia, Melanesia, Papuans
NBS Text Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
ONIX Text College/higher education;Professional and scholarly
Number of Pages 296
Dimensions Width: 152mm
Height: 227mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight 408g
Dewey Code 305.89915
Catalogue Code 89532

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Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and place - an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.

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NZ Review Rich, scholastically challenging, and another milestone in the journey towards clarity in our understanding of the sense-making processes and products of ourselves and others.

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