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Master Poets, Ritual Masters the Art of Oral Composition Among the Rotenese …
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Fox, James J.

his is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations. Specifically, it is a study of the recitations of 17 separate master poets from the Island of Rote recorded over a period of 50 years. Each of these poets offers his version of what is culturally considered to be the ‘same’ ritual chant. These compositions are examined in detail and their oral f…

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The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of …
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Fox, James J.

This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Each paper describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in which social knowledge is vested, maintained and transformed in a particular landscape. The intention of the volume is to consider common patterns in the representation of place …

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9781920942861
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Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography
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Fox, James J.SATHER, Clifford

Ethnography; Kinship; Social life; Customs; Islands of the pacific; South east asia

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9781920942878
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Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on domestic designs for living
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Fox, James J.

The eight papers in this volume examine the spatial organization of a variety of Austronesian houses and relate the domestic design of these houses to the social and ritual practices of the specific groups who reside within them. The houses considered in this volume range from longhouses in Borneo to the meeting-houses of the Maori of New Zealand and from the magnificent houses of the Minangkab…

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9781920942847
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301 FOX i