Tuked Rini: cosmic traveller life & legend in the heart of Borneo
"This innovative and visually engaging study presents a legend from Borneo in which the Kelabit hero Tuked Rini ventures out into the cosmos to do battle in remote spirit-laden places, returning to his wife with the heads of his enemies. Accompanied by audio material and additional resources th...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Copenhagen
NIAS Press
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series
125 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This innovative and visually engaging study presents a legend from Borneo in which the Kelabit hero Tuked Rini ventures out into the cosmos to do battle in remote spirit-laden places, returning to his wife with the heads of his enemies. Accompanied by audio material and additional resources that will be developed on a companion website, the work uses the legend to explore Kelabit ideas about life and cosmology - ideas of power or life force, the world of women centred on rice-growing and the relationship of men with the wild. Especially innovative is the way it brings together an orally told legend and a highly visually-oriented exploration of the way of life of the people who tell it |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-161) and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 174 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 8776941302 87-7694-130-2 9788776941307 978-87-7694-130-7 9789839468076 978-983-9468-07-6 |