Nage Birds: Classification And Symbolism Among An Eastern Indonesian People

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth

This Book Describes In Detail The Relationship Between The Nage People Of Eastern Indonesia And The Birds Whose Environment They Share. Based On More Than A Decade Of Ethnographic Fieldwork, It Exp...

Rindi: An Ethnographic Study Of A Traditional Domain In Eastern Sumba

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth, Forth, Gregory L.

The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action. The book c...

Beneath The Volcano

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth, Forth, Gregory L.

Beneath the Volcano is the first major account of the Nage, who inhabit the central part of Flores in eastern Indonesia. The book focuses on Nage ideas concerning a variety of spiritual beings an...

Nage Birds

By Gregory Forth

Images Of The Wildman In Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth

The book examines ‘wildmen’, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Sometimes described in considerable detail, the cre...

Images Of The Wildman In Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth

The book examines ‘wildmen’, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Sometimes described in considerable detail, the cre...

Nage Birds

By Gregory Forth

Images Of The Wildman In Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth

The book examines ‘wildmen’, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Sometimes described in considerable detail, the cre...

Dog Pissing At The Edge Of A Path

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth

"The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this firs...

A Dog Pissing At The Edge Of A Path: Animal Metaphors In An Eastern Indonesian Society

By Gregory L. Forth, Gregory Forth

An innovative, in-depth exploration of animal metaphors in a non-Western society and a critique of current theoretical approaches in anthropology. An innovative, in-depth exploration of animal meta...