Journal
Journal

Author: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Publisher:

Published: 1885

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13:

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Melanesian Odysseys
Melanesian Odysseys

Author: Lisette Josephides

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0857450557

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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 people make explicit in their actions and speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from self-externalization rather than self-introspection.

Religions of Melanesia
Religions of Melanesia

Author: Garry Trompf

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2006-09-30

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1567206662

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Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.

Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin
Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin

Author: John W. M. Verhaar

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9027230234

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The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in substratology, both for Tok Pisin and for Bislama. Another is what in fact amounts to a change in perspective from universalism, as supposedly competitive with the substratological orientation, towards a generalist approach to typology, which reduces the apparent polarity, from a theoretical point of view. A third is the pervasive interest of contributors in wider language issues in the social and political life of Papua New Guinea.These interests go back to the linguistic and social experience of the participants, most of whom have a long record of living among the people whose languages they have studied on a day-to-day basis, and to the relative remoteness of their inspiration from the more theoretical and perhaps ultimately untestable issues which surround the universalist approach and its claims for a bioprogram foundation for language.

Synkrētic 1
Synkrētic 1

Author: A. P. Elkin

Publisher: Irukandji Press

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0646855743

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The journal Synkrētic is an outlet for thought-provoking writing on the philosophy, literature and cultures of the Indo-Pacific. It showcases the diverse traditions of thought, story-telling and expression which are woven into the living tapestry of this culturally, linguistically and politically complex region.

The Melanesian World
The Melanesian World

Author: Eric Hirsch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-28

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 131552967X

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This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.