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"Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?"

Maritime anthropology --- Rivers --- Water --- Crocodiles --- Ethnology. --- Religious aspects. --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water --- Marine anthropology --- Marine ethnology --- Maritime ethnology --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- Crocodiles (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Water (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Pacific Islands --- Waikato River

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folklore --- epic studies --- literature --- Folklore --- Epic literature --- Folklore. --- Epic literature. --- Literature --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling

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Indonesia

Toraja Saʼdan literature --- Folklore --- Toraja (Indonesian people) --- Toradja (Indonesian people) --- Toradjas --- Ethnology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Toraja Saʼdan literature. --- indonesia --- Toraja Saʾdan literature. --- Toraja Saʾdan literature

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How to Read a FoIktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a séries of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the taie is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His définitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring's research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism.

Tales --- Folklore --- Mythology, Malagasy. --- Malagasy mythology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- folklore --- oral literature --- oral tradition --- African folklore studies --- Ibonia --- Madagascar --- folktales --- tales

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A rich source for comparative studies of the 'body', and of its relation to society. This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. It brings together essays by established experts in the history of religion, the social sciences, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to an analysis of current secularized discourses on the 'body', and to exposing both their anti-religious and their covertly religious content. Parts II and III provide essays on traditional 'Western' and 'Eastern' religious attitudes to the 'body'. Each contributor focuses on some (especially characteristic) devotional practices or relevant texts; each carefully outlines the total context in which a distinctive religious attitude to 'bodiliness' occurs. The result is a rich source for comparative studies of the 'body', and of its relation to society and to the divine.

Human body --- 291.22 --- 291.22 Godsdienstwetenschap: doctrines over mens en ziel --- Godsdienstwetenschap: doctrines over mens en ziel --- Body, Human (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Religious aspects --- Religious studies --- Corps humain --- Aspect religieux --- godsdienst (religie, religieuze aspecten) --- lichaam --- religion (aspects religieux) --- corps