Melanesian History And Culture
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Author | : Eric Hirsch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131552967X |
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.
Author | : Lisette Josephides |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857450557 |
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.
Author | : Bruce M. Knauft |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780472066872 |
A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Author | : G. W. Trompf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1991-04-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521383064 |
Am invariable guide and analysis to pressing issues of religious and Soviet change in the Pacific.
Author | : Paul Sillitoe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1998-10-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521588362 |
This Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia is intended for undergraduate anthropology students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline, and for courses in Pacific Studies. Each chapter focuses on a topic common to many cultures in the region, such as the role of so-called Big Men, ancestors, male initiation, and exchange, and these ideas are fleshed out with apt ethnographic examples. Melanesia is a fascinating culture area, and has always been a popular fieldwork site for anthropologists, including W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Some of the most important theoretical contributions to the subject were also first formulated with reference to Melanesian studies, and students today still learn much of their basic anthropology from Melanesian examples.
Author | : Lamont Lindstrom |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824878957 |
Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive? Of all the stories spun about the island peoples of Melanesia, tales of cargo cult are among the most fascinating. The term cargo cult, Lamont Lindstrom contends, is one of anthropology's most successful conceptual offspring. Like culture, worldview and ethnicity, its usage has steadily proliferated, migrating into popular culture where today it is used to describe an astonishing roll-call of people. It's history makes for lively and compelling reading. The cargo cult story, Lindstrom shows, is more significant than it at first appears, for it recapitulates in summary form three generations of anthropological theory and Pacific studies. Although anthropologists' enthusiasm for the notion of cargo cult has waned, it now colors outsiders' understanding of Melanesian culture, and even Melanesians' perceptions of themselves. The repercussions for contemporary Islanders are significant: leaders of more than one political movement have felt the need to deny that they are any kind of cargo cultist. Of particular interest to this history is Lindstom's argument that accounts of cargo cult are at heart tragedies of thwarted desire, melancholy anticipation and crazy unrequited love. He makes a convincing case that these stories expose powerful Western scenarios of desire itself—giving cargo cult its combined titillation of the fascinating exotic and the comfortably familiar.
Author | : William Halse Rivers Rivers |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Author | : Holly Wardlow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351886215 |
Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Thomas Gregor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2001-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520228529 |
Amazonia and Melanesia are half a world in distance, yet their cultures bear similarities in the areas of sex and gender. This work looks at ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized.
Author | : Stanley J. Ulijaszek |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781571816443 |
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.