This book presents ten vivid accounts of researchers' experiences of working with children across a variety of cultural contexts. For a preview, see http://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/widgets/9781474258180/children.html

Sociology of Children and Childhood, Ethnography, and Anthropology of Children and Childhood

Location: London

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Date: May 19, 2016

The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams a... more abstractThe Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways “lively,” re-traveling routes between houses and villages and highlighting the advantages of mobility. Through everyday and ritual activities that emphasize “liveliness,” the land gains a further potency: the power to evoke memories of birth, death, and marriage, to influence human health and fertility. Potent Landscapes is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behavior, and emotions. Based on two years of fieldwork in rural Flores, the book situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the larger contexts of diverse human-environment interactions as well as adat revival in postcolonial Indonesia. Although it focuses on social life in one region of eastern Indonesia, the work engages with broader theoretical discussions of landscape, travel, materiality, cultural politics, kinship, and animism.

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press.

Publication Date: 2013

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Publication Name: Anthropological Forum

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Publication Date: 2012

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