A Melanesia Bibliography
Author: Terence Wesley-Smith
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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Author: Terence Wesley-Smith
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Hirsch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781845450281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!
Author: Clyde Romer Hughes Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Polynesian Society (Wellington, New Zealand)
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0520341384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984. 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
Author: Katharina Schneider
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0857453017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
Author: Colin Filer
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Winston Halapua
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789820203150
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