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

 
9780824823894: Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0824823893 ISBN 13: 9780824823894
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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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."

About the Author

Rumsey is Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

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Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0824823893
ISBN 13 
9780824823894
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296
Editor
Rumsey Alan, Weiner James F.