A Melanesia Bibliography
Author: Terence A. Wesley-Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13:
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Transactions and Creations
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!
Saltwater Sociality
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.
Pacific Nations and Territories
Author: Reilly Ridgell
Publisher: Bess Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781573060011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a background in Pacific geography, culture, and history, plus an overview of the different Pacific island groups.
Nameless Relations
Author: Monica Konrad
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781845450403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. Offsetting informants' local narratives against traditional Western folk models of the 'sexed' reproductive body, the book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that clinicians and others promote as "gifts of life." It brings together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology, social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of bodily integrity.
Living on the Fringe
Author: Winston Halapua
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789820203150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBodies and Persons
Author: Michael Lambek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-03-28
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521627375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLarge-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals to heal the sick, 'electric vampires', and even the impact of capitalism. There are detailed ethnographic analyses, and suggestive comparisons of classic African and Melanesian ethnographic cases, such as the Nuer and the Melpa. The contributors debate alternative strategies for cross-cultural comparison, and demonstrate that there is a surprising range of continuities, putting in question common assumptions about the huge differences between these two parts of the world.
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
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
Sorcery, Witchcraft and Christianity in Melanesia
Author: Franco Zocca
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 194
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Author: Bo Flood
Publisher: Bess Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781573060783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people. --amazon.com.
