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Author : F. E. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789980879769
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Orokaiva Society written by F. E. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313238464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Orokaiva Society written by Francis Edgar Williams and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1983-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographical study of the Orokaiva people of Papua -New Guinea.
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Orokaiva Society written by Francis Edgar Williams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Orokaiva Society written by Francis Edgar Williams and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Orokaiva Society, with an Introd. by Sir Hubert Murray written by Francis Edgar Williams and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecile Barraud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000325121
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Of Relations and the Dead written by Cecile Barraud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.
Author : Ira Bashkow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226038912
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of Whitemen written by Ira Bashkow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counterevidence. While Papua New Guinea’s resident white population has been severely reduced due to postcolonial white flight, the whiteman remains a significant racial and cultural other here—not only as an archetype of power and wealth in the modern arena, but also as a foil for people’s evaluations of themselves within vernacular frames of meaning. As Ira Bashkow explains, ideas of self versus other need not always be anti-humanistic or deprecatory, but can be a creative and potentially constructive part of all cultures. A brilliant analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society, The Meaning of Whitemen turns traditional ethnography to the purpose of understanding how others see us.
Author : Ira Bashkow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653006X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of Whitemen written by Ira Bashkow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counterevidence. While Papua New Guinea’s resident white population has been severely reduced due to postcolonial white flight, the whiteman remains a significant racial and cultural other here—not only as an archetype of power and wealth in the modern arena, but also as a foil for people’s evaluations of themselves within vernacular frames of meaning. As Ira Bashkow explains, ideas of self versus other need not always be anti-humanistic or deprecatory, but can be a creative and potentially constructive part of all cultures. A brilliant analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society, The Meaning of Whitemen turns traditional ethnography to the purpose of understanding how others see us.
Author : George Peter Murdock
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976307
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Theories of Illness written by George Peter Murdock and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.
Author : Don Handelman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857458884
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Ritual in Its Own Right written by Don Handelman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.
Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588362
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Corrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195166248
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Religion and Emotion written by John Corrigan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together twelve essays in the field of emotion studies. This book examines attitudes toward and expressions of emotion in a range of religious traditions and periods. It provides insights to students of comparative religion, anthropology and psychology.
Author : Michael D. Lieber
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880749
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Exiles and Migrants in Oceania written by Michael D. Lieber and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural and social consequences of uprooting island populations are the principal concerns of the anthropologists contributing to this first comparative study of resettled communities. The ten communities chosen for study include migrant groups like the Rotumans in Fiji as well as relocated ones like the people of Bikini Atoll or the Tikopia in the Russell Islands.
Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351319906
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Mountain Arapesh written by Margaret Mead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation. In contrast to the aggressive Arapesh who lived on the plains, both the men and the women of the mountain settlements were found to be, in Mead's word, maternal. The Mountain Arapesh exhibited qualities that many might consider feminine: they were, in general, passive, affectionate, and peaceloving. Though Mead partially explains the male's "femininity" as being due to the type of nourishment available to the Arapesh, she maintains social conditioning to be a factor in the type of lifestyle led by both sexes. Mead's study encapsulates all aspects of the Arapesh culture. She discusses betrothal and marriage customs, sexuality, gender roles, diet, religion, arts, agriculture, and rites of passage. In possibly a portent for the breakdown of traditional roles and beliefs in the latter part of the twentieth century, Mead discusses the purpose of rites of passage in maintaining societal values and social control. Mead also discovered that both male and female parents took an active role in raising their children. Furthermore, it was found that there were few conflicts over property: the Arapesh, having no concept of land ownership, maintained a peaceful existence with each other. In his new introduction to The Mountain Arapesh, Paul B. Roscoe assesses the importance of Mead's work in light of modern anthropological and ethnographic research, as well as how it fits into her own canon of writings. Roscoe discusses findings he culled from a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1991 to clarify some ambiguities in Mead's work. His travels also served to help reconstruct what had happened to the Arapesh since Mead's historic visit in the early 1930s.
Author : Daniel Elazar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351309668
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Kinship in the Admiralty Islands written by Daniel Elazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands is the classic and only thorough description of their complex rules of marriage and family relations. It draws on Mead's 1928-1929 field work, conducted with her second husband, New Zealander Reo Fortune, and benefits by her being able to cross-check her data with his. Written in 1931, Kinship followed Mead's first and very popular book on the Manus, Growing Up in New Guinea, which was criticized by other anthropologists for being too general in scope. In Kinship Mead succeeded in demonstrating her thorough knowledge of this Melanesian group in the specific terms prized by her scholarly colleagues, while also describing in depth Manus social structure.Kinship in the Admiralty Islands describes an intricate system of social restraints and kinship ties and their impact on the local economy. The Manus' predilection for adoption, for example, allows surrogate fathers to make extended marriage payments, while in the next generation their adopted sons will take on the same responsibility for other young men in the new kin network. Mead reviews other kinship rules, such as avoidance behavior between in-laws of the opposite sex, early betrothals, other forms of adoption, and a range of deference behavior and joking relations among kin. In this work, Mead walks a fine line between functionalist kinship analysis of the British school of Radclife Brown and the cultural-and-personality orientation of Americans in the school of Franz Boas.Jeanne Guillemin's new introduction provides a lively in depth description of Margaret Mead's career in the early days of anthropology, the sometimes negative reactions of her contemporaries to her work, and her reasons for writing Kinship in the Admiralty Islands, as well as Mead's later reactions to how "her Manus" entered the modern world.Margaret Mead was noted for directing her writings to both scholar and laymen alike. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands will be of interest to anthropologists and general readers interested in the peoples of the South Pacific.Margaret Mead was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History. She was the author of many books including Continuities in Cultural Evolution (available from Transaction), The Study of Culture at a Distance, The Mountain of Arapesh, and From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies. Jeanne Guillemin is a professor of anthropology at Boston College and editor of Anthropological Realities: Readings in the Science of Culture, also available from Transaction.
Author : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Author : John Clammer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134918733X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Beyond the New Economic Anthropology written by John Clammer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-07-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
