03197nam 2200613 450 991078818320332120230807204703.00-8032-6694-40-8032-6696-0(CKB)2670000000587937(EBL)1899791(SSID)ssj0001455107(PQKBManifestationID)11820788(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001455107(PQKBWorkID)11499446(PQKB)10101948(MiAaPQ)EBC1899791(OCoLC)898893011(MdBmJHUP)muse35689(Au-PeEL)EBL1899791(CaPaEBR)ebr11000736(CaONFJC)MIL682744(OCoLC)923710132(EXLCZ)99267000000058793720150114h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA far corner life and art with the open circle tribe /Scott EzellNetherlands ;London, England :University of Nebraska Press,2015.©20151 online resource (502 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-51462-3 0-8032-6522-0 Includes bibliographical references.""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""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 conteBiographyBibliographyTaiwangndBezirk T'ai-tunggndBiography016.92Ezell Scott1491163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788183203321A far corner3712832UNINA