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Working with the ancestors : mana and place in the Marquesas Islands / Emily C. Donaldson.
Penn Museum Library GN671.M3 D66 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donaldson, Emily C., author.
- Series:
- Culture, place, and nature
- Culture, place, and nature: studies in anthropology and environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--Social aspects.
- Land use.
- Mana.
- Sacred space.
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)--Social life and customs.
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia).
- French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Ethnology--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Ethnology.
- Sacred space--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Mana--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Land use--Social aspects--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- The sacred and the sustainable
- Marquesan lands : a living history
- Contested lands : the tenure of ancestral places
- Spirits and bodies : Marquesan engagements with place and the past
- Living from the land : livelihoods, heritage, and development
- Beyond heritage : power, respect, and UNESCO
- Sustainability and loss : heritage management in practice
- Building a future on sacred lands.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Donaldson, Emily C. Working with the ancestors.
- ISBN:
- 9780295745824
- 0295745827
- 9780295745831
- 0295745835
- OCLC:
- 1057782067
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