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| Author | : Paolo Fortis |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2021-03-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1000366944 |
This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective. The chapters focus on how peoples in both regions ‘live in’ and ‘navigate’ time each through their distinctive systems of images and the processes and actions by which these come to be manifest in objects. With original theoretical and ethnographic contributions, the book is valuable reading for scholars interested in visual and material culture and in anthropological approaches to time.
| Author | : William Halse Rivers Rivers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 1914 |
| Genre | : Anthropology |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William Halse Rivers Rivers |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 619 |
| Release | : 2014-08-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1107419344 |
This two-volume work from 1914 presents William Halse Rivers' theory of the diffusion of culture in the south-west Pacific. Volume Two details the many similarities and differences among the societies of Melanesia and the possible ways in which these contrasts could have arisen.
| 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 | : William Halse Rivers Rivers |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Anthropology |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Marilyn Strathern |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1988-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520910713 |
In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.
| Author | : Gilbert H. Herdt |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 1993-01-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520080966 |
"This book marks the first time that anthropologists systematically studies cross-cultural variation in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. Gilbert Herdt has provided a substantial new introduction for the paperback edition"--
| Author | : A.H. Carrier |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2012-10-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136643435 |
First Published in 1991. In the 1980s many anthropologists rejected the classic concern with the structure and logic of social organisation and embraced instead a concern with process, with the fluidity of events and individual strategy. Through its analysis of a Melanesian society and the ways it has changed in the twentieth century this book addresses the relationship between the classic structural approach and the more recent processual one. The society analysed is Ponam, located on a small island in Papua New Guinea. The book describes Ponam kinship and ceremonial exchange, and so compliments the authors’' analysis of Onam economic organisation in 'Wage, Tarde and Exchange in Melanesia'. Like its companion volume, this book locates Ponanm in its broader social, political and economic environment.
| 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.
| Author | : Gilbert H. Herdt |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520341384 |
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 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
