Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society (Folklore Fellows Communications 299) Tapa dura - 2010

ACADEMIA SCIENTIARUM FENNICA, 2010. HARDCOVER. AS NEW/NONE. NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED~AN EXTREMELY CLEAN AND BRIGHT UNMARKED COPY OF THIS BOOK

Academia Scientiarum Fennica. 2010. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 207 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. Folklore Fellows' Communications 299 . This book explores 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 traveling 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. The expressive genres of the Bandanese force us to ask what counts as history and how people s own interpretations of world-scale political events shape their predicaments and possibilities of action. This book argues that ethno-history can be a source of exemplary acts which inform collective responses to new… Leer más