Austronesian paths and journeys

This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. Each of the papers in this volume examines various cultural expressions of metaphors of path and journey within a specific Austronesian society. While these extended ethnographic accounts focus on a diversity of metaphoric expressions...

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Other Authors: Fox, James J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia Australian National University Press 2021©2021, 2021
Series:Comparative Austronesian Series
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. Each of the papers in this volume examines various cultural expressions of metaphors of path and journey within a specific Austronesian society. While these extended ethnographic accounts focus on a diversity of metaphoric expressions among widely scattered societies from Taiwan to Timor and from Madagascar to Melanesia and the Pacific, they also point to similar common cultural usages across the Austronesian-speaking world
Item Description:Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (xiii, 351 pages
ISBN:1760464333