| Description |
1 online resource (502 pages) |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""Preface: A Far Corner""; ""1. E-ki on the Beach""; ""2. The Sugar Factory""; ""3. Dinner with the Chief""; ""4. A House at the End of the Road""; ""5. Beneath the Skin""; ""6. Carving a Carving Knife""; ""7. Between the City and the Sea""; ""8. Purification""; ""9. Hinoki Studio""; ""10. Songs of the Amis""; ""11. Big and Small Things""; ""12. A Woodcarver""; ""13. Hunting with the Bunun""; ""14. Live Music""; ""15. Shelter from the Sun""; ""16. Coupled Orbits""; ""17. The Chief Is Dead"" |
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""18. An Apartment in Town""""19. Homecomings""; ""20. A Long Swim""; ""21. Betel Nut Brothers""; ""22. E-ki on the Boulevard""; ""23. E-ki across the Ocean""; ""24. Departure""; ""Epilogue: Further Fields""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Appendix 1""; ""Appendix 2""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""About Scott Ezell"" |
| Summary |
In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan's remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of Aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived on the beach and cultivated a living connection with their Indigenous heritage. Most members of the Open Circle Tribe belong to the Amis tribe, which is descended from Austronesian peoples that migrated from China thousands of years ago. As a "nonstate" people navigating the fraught politics of conte |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Amis (Taiwan people)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Amis (Taiwan people)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803266964 |
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0803266960 |
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0803265220 |
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9780803265226 |
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