Author:
Publisher: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury and Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
Keywords: vanuatu, blong, stael, politics, melanesian
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 1995
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0958330042
ISBN-13: 9780958330046

Author: G. W. Trompf
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: religions, melanesian, retribution, logic, payback
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 1994-09-30
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0521416914
ISBN-13: 9780521416917

In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.Book DescriptionIn this study Garry Trompf shows how various as

Author: Roger Keesing
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: substrate, oceanic, pidgin, melanesian
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1988-06-01
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0804714509
ISBN-13: 9780804714501

Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.

Author: Josephides
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: modernity, narrative, negotiating, odysseys, melanesian
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845455258
ISBN-13: 9781845455255

In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that peop

Author: Sandra Bamford
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: life, biotechnology, reflections, melanesian, unmoored, biology
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2007-02-20
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520247132
ISBN-13: 9780520247130

Biology Unmoored is an engaging examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings’ relationship to the organic world. Bamford also exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness do depend on a notion of physiological reproduction. Her innovative analysis includes a discussion of the advent of assisted reproductive

Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: melanesian, anthropology, studies, melanesia, homosexuality, ritualized
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1993-01-28
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520080963
ISBN-13: 9780520080966

This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings.

Author: Michele Stephen
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: melanesian, anthropology, studies, magic, gifts, study, a’aisa’s
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0520088298
ISBN-13: 9780520088290

Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A’aisa’s Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years’ fieldwork, this richly detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-conceptualizations recasts accepted notions about magic and selfhood. Drawing on accounts by Mekeo ritual experts and laypersons, this is the first book to demonstrate magic’s profound role in creating the self. It also argues convincingly that dream reporting provides a natural context for se