ISBN:
9781000366945
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Anthropology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.098
Keywords:
Time-Social aspects-Central America
;
Time-Social aspects-South America
;
Time-Social aspects-Melanesia
;
Material culture-Central America
;
Material culture-South America
;
Material culture-Melanesia
;
Indians of Central America-Social life and customs
;
Indians of South America-Social life and customs
;
Melanesians-Social life and customs
;
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Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On image and artefact systems -- Comparisons -- Multiplicity -- Repetition -- Transformation -- The body -- Structure of the book -- Part I - Attending to time: process, action and sequence -- Part 2 - Navigating possible worlds: surfaces, patterns and shapes -- Part 3 - Moving between intersecting worlds: witnessing and questioning -- Note -- References -- Part I: Attending to time: Process, action and sequence -- 1. Asia-Pacific legacies in Eastern Kula Ring outrigger canoes -- Introduction -- The scene -- The analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. The living shape of time: Time and technics in the case of Abulës-speakers yams -- Introduction: can time be of the essence? -- Yams short ethnography -- Yams as time machines -- The spatiotemporal creation of Abelam Yams -- Yams as timeless beings: the immortal individual -- Ceremonies as pause and framing -- Conclusion: paatë and tulë as the shapes of time -- Notes -- References -- 3. The lost writing and the drawn thought: Shamanic reflections on knowledge and temporality among the Marubo (Western Amazonia) -- Introduction -- Amazonian shamanic iconographies -- Paulino Memãpa's drawings -- Shamanistic speculative thought and the politics of writing -- Final remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Navigating possible worlds: Surfaces, patterns and shapes -- 4. Primeval skins: the rugged and the smooth surface: Cultural keynotes and accords in the Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea -- Introduction -- Keynote and accords -- Keynote and skins: crocodile-man and yam-child -- Skin and body -- Riverine accords: incising the skin - transferring properties -- Horticulturalist accords: cultivating and implanting a smooth skin -- Conclusion -- Notes.
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