An Outline of Humanity a Travel Back into the Local Context

NEONBASU, Gregor (2013) An Outline of Humanity a Travel Back into the Local Context. Anthropos, 108. pp. 163-172.

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Abstract

The article figures the best way out for traveling back into local cultural discourse, of which it has given to the author a new chance to go back into the heart of the ordinary people’s daily life. During the research time, he not only did collect data that gave him the chance to shape the understanding on local culture, but also materials of the fieldwork encouraged him to come closer to the atmosphere of ordinary people’s life. Anthropological research became an interesting opportunity to go into the heart of the people. In this regard, an important point is that he discovered meaning and values behind the oral traditions of the local people’s daily lives. In telling stories, he was able to experience how local people conceptualize the cosmology and other topic leading to local understanding of the ecological system. [Timor, Biboki, social life, oral tradition, world view, global change]

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