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Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTimo Kaartinen
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2010.This book explores the narratives of people who trace their origin to Banda, the famous Nutmeg Islands of Eastern Indonesia. They were displaced from their ancient homeland by the Dutch colonization of Banda in 1621 and carry on their language and traditions in the village described in this study. The Bandanese continue travelling to distant places in pursuit of recognition by their ancestral allies. They bring their past into life through rituals and verbal arts which commemorate absent travelers and anticipate their return. This book argues that ethno-history can be a source of exemplary acts which inform collective responses to new circumstances. The folk poetry of the Bandanese places real, historical events in several chronotopic frameworks in which they are relived as memory and given a total meaning as history. FF Communications No. 299 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Reichl
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2007.Edige is one of the most esteemed oral epics of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic-speaking people, who live on the mouth of the Amu Darya and the shores of the Aral Sea. Edige is a historical personage from the time of Timur at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. The singer, Jumabay Bazarov, was the last Karakalpak singer of heroic epics who stood in an entirely oral tradition. In this edition and translation an attempt has been made to capture as much of his oral performance as possible, including the singer’s dialect features and his musical style. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Collaborative Representations: Interpreting the Creation of a Sami Ethnography and a Seto Epic
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKristin Kuutama
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2006.The focus of this book revolves around two manifestly representative texts from the early twentieth century: Johan Turi’s story of Sami experience Muitalus samiid birra and the Seto epic Peko performed by Anne Vabarna. The current analysis of the complex performative interaction between the culture bearer, his or her repertoire, and the culture researcher benefits from an interdisciplinary anthropological and folkloristic approach, informed by hybridity and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries in historicizing inquiries into cultural documentation and textual practices. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Holy Mountain: Studies on Upper Altay Oral Poetry
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLauri Harvilahti; Zoja S. Kazagaceva
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2003.The aim of this study is to achieve a synthesis in forming a new overall view of the stylistic-poetic and structural devices used to produce the archaic mythical and epic cultural tradition of the Upper Altay region. Attention is also being paid to the inherent ethnic nature of the Altaian ethnic groups, to cultural influences and to some extent their present cultural identity. FF Communications No. 282 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Blackburn
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001.Is fantasy the defining element in fairy tales? This question is the starting point for Stuart Blackburn’s study of Tamil oral tales. Having collected over 300 tales, 100 of which are translated in this book, he concludes that although fantasy, and humour, are present, at the core of the tales lies a moral vision in which wrongdoing, especially physical cruelty, is punished. Only the second full-length study of Indian tales from oral tradition, this book places the Tamil tradition in an international context, describes the telling sessions and includes tellers’ interpretations of some tales. FF Communications No. 278 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A Motif-Index of Luis Rosado Vega’s Mayan Legends
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJim C. Tatum
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.The Mayan Culture, long recognised as among the most advanced indigenous groups of Latin America, possesses a rich heritage of mythology and traditions still very apparent in the Yacatan Peninsula at the closing of the twentieth century. Although Mayan legends have been studied and published as early as 1844, there exists no extensive motif-index dealing with the topic. This work attempts to help fill that need by indexing the works of Yacatecan writer Luis Rosaldo Vega. FF Communications No. 271 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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Binding Culture into Thread: Textile Arts of Biboki, West Timor
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFiona Leibrick
Darwin: Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory / The Centre for Southeast Asia Studies, Northern Territory University, 1994. -
Katu Folktales and Society
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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The Peter Hallinan Collection of Melanesian Art
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSotheby’s
London: Sotheby’s, 1992.Illustrated price catalogue for an auction held in London on Monday the 7th of December, 1992.
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Two Women, Two Worlds: Friendship Swept by Winds of Change
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAudrey McCollum
Hanover: Hillwinds Press, 1999.