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In this work on migration in New Guinea, migration is seen as the total circulation of people, objects, ideas and ritual complexes across, as well as within, cultural boundaries. The essays discuss how processes of flow have a transformative effect on the constitution of cultural ...
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Addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the history of anthropology and its importance for contemporary issues. Drawing on his own research, Strathern advances the call for holistic models of human behaviour which reconceptualise the relationship between body and mind.
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In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this study argues for cultural holism by showing how symbolic, psychological, religious and linguistic factors have shaped Melpa responses to political and economic crises.
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The third book in a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peace-building. In many societies, particularly in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, peace and violence are linked intrinsically because peace-making follows on the principle of ...
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This volume contains the texts and/or translations of courting songs, ballads, folktales and mythology of the people of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, and presents a historical picture of gender relations as portrayed through the material.
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9780275977924 |
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30 August 2002 |
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All ages |
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Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface.
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A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.
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A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.
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With significant Pacific content - this presents a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. This title covers definitional questions, issues of interpretation, meaning, and function, and a roster of ethnographic and analytical topics, covering classic themes such as ...
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Explores the significance of expressive genres for the social processes of coping with and adjusting to change, either from outside forces or from internal ones. This book covers Austronesian and non-Austronesian speakers in the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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