Description: This is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape in eastern Indonesia and its implications for human needs, behavior, and emotions. The book describes the intense, personal connections between Manggarai individuals and certain places a
Review Quotes: Taken as a whole, the book vividly illustrates how actual field realities complicate the idealized research methodologies on which ethnographers of children frequently have been encouraged to build their research proposals. . . . This book is most successful as an exploration of, as Allerton puts it, 'the process of undertaking ethnography with children, and the ways in which it might be different to ethnography with adults.'-- "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"