| Description |
vi, 417 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Explorations in anthropology |
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Explorations in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Verena Keck -- 1. Reflections on Knowledge in an Oceanic Setting / Raymond Firth -- 2. Body, Being and Identity in Ambonwari, Papua New Guinea / Borut Telban -- 3. On the Acquisition of Knowledge: Teaching Kinship through the Body among the Tiwi of Northern Australia / Andree Grau -- 4. Cannibalism and Compassion: Transformations in Fijian Concepts of the Person / Christina Toren -- 5. A Twist of the Rope / Andrew Strathern -- 6. Biographies of Social Action: Excessive Portraits / Lisette Josephides -- 7. 'Praying Samoa and Praying Oui-Oui': Making Christianity Local on Lifu (Loyalty Islands) / Anna Paini -- 8. Appropriating the Other: A Case Study from New Britain / Monique Jeudy-Ballini -- 9. Experiencing Outside Worlds: Tannese Labour Recruitment in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / Ronald Adams -- 10. Intrusions into the Female Realm: The Medicalization of Human Procreation among the Kwanga in Papua New Guinea / Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk |
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11. The Chuukese Women's Status: Traditional and Modern Elements / Beatriz Moral -- 12. Showing the Invisible: Violence and Politics among the Ankave-Anga (Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea) / Pierre Lemonnier -- 13. 'Big Man' and 'Big Woman' in the Village - Elite in the Town. The Iatmul, Papua New Guinea / Milan Stanek and Florence Weiss -- 14. Why Do the Tiwi Want a New Township? / Eric Venbrux -- 15. Staging a Political Challenge: The Story of Tokelau te Ata / Ingjerd Hoem -- 16. The New Modernities / Marilyn Strathern |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Acculturation -- Oceania.
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Ethnicity -- Ocenia
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Ethnicity -- Oceania.
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Ethnophilosophy -- Oceania.
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Human ecology -- Pacific Area.
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Social ecology -- Pacific Area.
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| SUBJECT |
Oceania -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116423
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| Author |
Keck, Verena.
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| LC no. |
98185362 |
| ISBN |
1859731643 |
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1859731694 |
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