Water Of Words - A Cultural Ecology Of A Small Island In Eastern Indonesia

Explores the poetry and ecology of the lontar (borassus) palm on the eastern Indonesian island of Roti. demonstrates tapping and cooking the juice and its transformation into syrup, beer and gin. Represents a collaboration of anthropologist James J. Fox and film makers Timthy and Patsy Asch. Available in an Indonesian language version also.

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