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Taking 20th-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, this work charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through material culture. It analyzes the insights that museum collections can provide into social relations.
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Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour.
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The perfect guide to the birds of Melanesia - New Caledonia, the Solomons, the Bismarks and Vanuatu
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Studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices, and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. This extended ethnography of Buka will be useful ...
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From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops an interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.
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Concerns primarily with the individual in his relations with the kinship structure. This book takes a Busama through a full span of life, from birth through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and marriage to maturity and death. It shows how each stage in the individual's life invol ...
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Illness is a matter of concern in every society. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in medicine and anthropology to show why, and in what respects these people of a forest village turn to t ...
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Focusing on different examples drawn from diverse Melanesian societies, this thought-provoking volume by eminent specialists re-examines the relationship between society and cosmos and, in the process, opens directions for research.
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Explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. This book examines various aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a negotiat ...
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Taking 20th-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, this work charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through material culture. It analyzes the insights that museum collections can provide into social relations.
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