Living on the Fringe
Author: Winston Halapua
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789820203150
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Author: Winston Halapua
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789820203150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Henry Codrington
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Hirsch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 131552967X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Total Pages: 972
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert Buell Lewis
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 290
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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: 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: E. S. Armstrong
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Gabriel Seligman
Publisher: Cambridge, U. P
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) was a British ethnographer who conducted field research in New Guinea, Sarawak, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), and Sudan. Trained as a medical doctor, in 1898 he joined an expedition organized by Cambridge University to the Torres Strait, the body of water that separates the island of New Guinea from Australia. The purpose of the expedition was to document the cultures of the Torres Strait islanders, which were rapidly disappearing under the influence of colonization. In 1904, Seligman was one of three members of the Cooke Daniels Ethnographic Expedition to British New Guinea, funded by Denver, Colorado department store owner William Cooke Daniels. The Melanesians of British New Guinea contains a detailed record of much of Seligman's anthropological research conducted during the expedition. Seligman's findings demonstrated the striking physical and cultural differences between the western Papuans and his main preoccupation, their eastern neighbors, who had been more influenced by Melanesian immigration. The book established Seligman's reputation as an anthropologist, and remains an important source for the study of the traditional culture of the peoples of present-day Papua New Guinea. The book includes photographs, drawings, maps, and a glossary of indigenous terms.
Author: G. W. Trompf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-04-26
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0521383064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAm invariable guide and analysis to pressing issues of religious and Soviet change in the Pacific.