Clifford Sather

Apai Alui Becomes a Shaman and Other Iban Comic Tales

An Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants

Seeds of Play, Words of Power

Timo Kaartinen

Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its members’ narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala’s work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in the double sense of “past” and “abroad.” This book is a tribute to Jukka’s contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring the near, distant, inward and outward horizons towards which societies project their reality, the authors aim at developing a new, productive language for addressing culture as a way of experiencing and engaging the world.

Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society

Beyond the Horizon

James J. Fox

This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies extending from insular Southeast Asia to the islands of the Pacific.

Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography

Origins, Ancestry and Alliance

Clifford Sather

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