The Poetic Power of Place

The Poetic Power of Place
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Publisher : ANU E Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781920942861
ISBN-13 : 1920942866
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Book Synopsis The Poetic Power of Place by : James J. Fox

Download or read book The Poetic Power of Place written by James J. Fox and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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