Research in Melanesia
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 206
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Author: 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: Adolphus Peter Elkin
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Henry Codrington
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Hobbis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-02-07
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 3030349292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects.
Author: 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!
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 21
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Spriggs
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-07-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780631167273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Island Melanesians is the first book to focus on the inhabitants of the chain of archipelagos stretching east and Southeast of the large island of New Guinea.
Author: William Halse Rivers Rivers
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 144
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