Emplaced myth : space, narrative, and knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea / edited by Alan Rumsey and James Weiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rumsey, Alan.

Weiner, James F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure--Congresses.

Aboriginal Australians.

Papuans--Land tenure--Congresses.

Papuans.

Philosophy, Papuan--Congresses.

Philosophy, Papuan.

Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian--Congresses.

Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian.

Sacred space--Melanesia--Congresses.

Sacred space.

Sacred space--Australia--Congresses.

Land tenure.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Australia.

Melanesia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2001]

Summary:

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 volume is the first in-depth work to do just that: it 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.

Contents:

1. Tracks, Traces, and Links to Land in Aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and Beyond / Alan Rumsey 19

2. The Politics of Religious Secrecy / Jurg Wassmann 43

3. Condensed Mapping: Myth and the Folding of Space/Space and the Folding of Myth / Roy Wagner 71

4. Origins versus Creative Powers: The Interplay of Movement and Fixity / Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern 79

5. Sacred Site, Ancestral Clearing, and Environmental Ethics / Deborah Bird Rose 99

6. Places That Move / Anthony Redmond 120

7. Strangelove's Dilemma: Or, What Kind of Secrecy Do the Ngarrindjeri Practice? / James F. Weiner 139

8. The Underground Life of Capitalism: Space, Persons, and Money in Bali (West New Britain) / Andrew Lattas 161

9. From Totemic Space to Cyberspace: Transformations in Sepik River and Aboriginal Australian Myth, Knowledge, and Art / Eric Kline Silverman 189

10. The Object in View: Aborigines, Melanesians, and Museums / Lissant Bolton 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index.

ISBN:

0824816633

0824823893

OCLC:

44518198