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001 2012277894
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020 $a9781780763668 (hbk.)
020 $a1780763662 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn801605733
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050 00 $aBL2600$b.B35 2013
082 00 $a299/.922$223
100 1 $aBaldick, Julian.
245 10 $aAncient religions of the Austronesian world :$bfrom Australasia to Taiwan /$cJulian Baldick.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bI.B. Tauris :$bDistributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,$c2013.
300 $a244 p. ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aInternational library of ethnicity, identity and culture ;$v4
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index.
520 $a"Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia - derived from the Latin australis,'southern',and Greek nesos,'island' - is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating a family of languages spoken by peoples with a shared heritage. Julian Baldick, a celebrated historian of ancient religion, here argues that the diverse inhabitants of the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, New Guinea and Oceania show a common inheritance that extends beyond language. This commonality is found above all in mythology and ritual, which reach back to an ancient, prehistoric past. From around 1250 BCE the original proto-Oceanic speakers migrated eastwards from South-East Asia. Navigating by the sun, the stars, bird flight, the swells of the sea and cloud-swathed mountain islands, Austronesian voyagers used canoes and outriggers to settle on new territories. They developed a unified pattern of religion characterised by mortuary rites, headhunting and agrarian rituals of the annual calendar, culminating in a post-harvest festival often sexual in nature. This unique overview of Austronesian belief and tradition - the author's final book, and published posthumously - will be essential reading for students of religion, prehistory and anthropology."--Publisher's website.
505 0 $aTaiwan -- Western Malayo-Polynesian speakers -- Central Malayo-Polynesian speakers -- Eastern Malayo-Polynesian speakers.
651 0 $aOceania$xReligion.
651 0 $aAustralasia$xReligion.
651 0 $aPacific Area$xReligion.
650 7 $aReligion.$2gnd
651 7 $aOzeanien.$2gnd
651 7 $aTaiwan.$2gnd
830 0 $aInternational library of ethnicity, identity and culture ;$vv. 4.