Kota Djogo: The Island that Never Was ...: The Role of Legends and Islamic Beliefs in Understanding Calamity and Disasters in Flores, Eastern Indonesia.
There is a large corpus of myths and legends about sea creatures in the maritime world, a record that portrays incredible and wondrous feats, wrecks, calamities, and disasters. In this article, I present an account of the mythological cosmology of the Endenese, a group of fearless seafarers that sco...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences of Southeast Asia & Oceania / Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol. 179; no. 3/4; pp. 382 - 416 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2023
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