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Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia

Autor Will Buckingham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2018
The Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia are remote and largely neglected by outsiders. Will Buckingham went there, as an anthropologist in training, with a mission. He hoped to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was skilled in black magic, but who abstained out of Christian principle. Part memoir, part travelogue, Stealing with the Eyes is the story of these men, and also of how stumbling into a world of witchcraft, sickness, and fever led Buckingham to question the validity of his anthropological studies, and eventually to abandon them for good. 

Through his encounters with these remarkable craftsmen—which in relating her also interweaves with Tanimbarese history, myth, and philosophy dating back to ancient times— we are shown the forces at play in all of our lives: the struggle between the powerful and the powerless, the tension between the past and the future, and how to make sense of a world that is in constant flux.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781909961425
ISBN-10: 1909961426
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 133 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing

Notă biografică

Will Buckingham is a writer of fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. He is currently a reader in Writing and Creativity at the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University and the author of Sixty-Four Chance Pieces and Lucy and the Rocket Dog.

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“Buckingham writes compellingly about cultural appropriation and the power imbalances that so often colour anthropological endeavour. . . . Stealing with the Eyes is powerful. Buckingham has a wonderful eye for detail, and the tale he has woven is gripping.”
 

“A beautifully written evocation of a journey into the village communities of eastern Indonesia, and a remarkable meditation on the uneasy business of travelling to foreign lands in search of stories.”

"Apart from setting the tone through observation, the best about Buckingham’s prose is its apparent honesty. Written more than two decades after working on a project with Ambon’s Pattimura University, this memoir squints at self and society from afar."