Tree Totems and the Tamarind People: Implications of Clan Plant Taboos in Central Flores
Abstract/Sommario:
Among the Nage of the Eastern Indonesia, a sizeable minority of clans maintain totemic attitudes towards trees and other plants whose names they share. Tree totemism is mostly expressed in taboos on burning the wood and using the timber in construction. In addition, there is the idea that all Nage people should not burn wood of the Tamarind tree. Comparative evidence and local historical narrative locate the source of phytonomic clan names in an earlier use of such names as toponym an ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | Tree Totems and the Tamarind People: Implications of Clan Plant Taboos in Central Flores/ Gregory Forth |
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IN Per: Oceania, vol. 79, n. 3 (2009 November) p. 263-279
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| ID scheda | 65454 |