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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788183203321

Autore

Ezell Scott

Titolo

A far corner : life and art with the open circle tribe / / Scott Ezell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Netherlands ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-6694-4

0-8032-6696-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Disciplina

016.92

Soggetti

Biography

Taiwan

Bezirk T'ai-tung

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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