Potent Landscapes - Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia

Klappentext An ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behaviour, and emotions. Based on two years of fieldwork in rural Flores, the book situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the larger contexts of diverse human-environment interactions as well as adat revival in postcolonial Indonesia. The work engages with broad theoretical discussions of landscape, travel, materiality, cultural politics, kinship, and animism. Zusammenfassung This is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape in eastern Indonesia and its implications for human needs! behavior! and emotions. The book describes the intense! personal connections between Manggarai individuals and certain places a

About the author

Catherine Allerton is lecturer in anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Allerton
• Assisted by: David P Chandler (Editor), David P. Chandler (Editor), Rita Smith Kipp (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2013
• EAN: 9780824838003
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3800-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology