Encyclopedia
Light Out For The Territory
“traditional tales. . . . may be said to comprise the whole national store of intellectual or moral property—viz., religion, science, and poetry at once. . . . Such knowledge as they convey is unconsciously imbibed by . . . listening to the story-tellers”
—Rink (1997 [1875]:86)
The entries in this encyclopedia are stories, organized by six geographic regions. Each entry features three sections: a Story, a summary of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge it contains, and an ethnographic overview of The Land and The People it comes from. Access entries by clicking on the region you want to explore:
Photos by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama