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Structure And Process In A Melanesian Society
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Book Synopsis Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society by : A.H. Carrier
Download or read book Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society written by A.H. Carrier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society by : Achsah H Carrier
Download or read book Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society written by Achsah H Carrier and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology by : James G. Carrier
Download or read book History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology written by James G. Carrier and published by Representations Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. The effects of this view are seen not only in overall popular and academic understandings of these societies but also in more abstract debates within anthropology about the nature of kinship, exchange, or social organization. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology offers an alternative view, from authors who believe that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures. This collection of original essays brings together scholars in anthropology and history. They point out ways in which the "timeless-traditionalism" approach of anthropology is inadequate. Life in the existing societies of Melanesia cannot be understood, they say, without taking firmly into account how these societies are shaped by their interactions with Western influences. In different ways all the contributors bring the history of Melanesian societies into their analyses, whether discussing the generally dismissive attitude of ethnographers toward the large numbers of Melanesian Christians; the ethnocentrism that led European observers to interpret fighting among the Melanesians solely according to whether it was for or against the Europeans; or the mechanism by which a practice such as kerekere (the soliciting of goods or services in Fijian society) became reified as a "custom." While the essays are critical of much of the anthropology that is done in Melanesia, they also exemplify a responsible, historically informed approach to the study of Melanesian societies - sober, constructive, and ideologically disinterested. Historians and anthropologists of Melanesia and the Pacific in general will find here original and enlightening work that is sure to influence the theoretical orientation of Melanesian anthropology.
Download or read book The Magical Body written by Richard Eves and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Encompassing Others by : Edward LiPuma
Download or read book Encompassing Others written by Edward LiPuma and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society
Book Synopsis Melanesians and Missionaries by : Darrell L. Whiteman
Download or read book Melanesians and Missionaries written by Darrell L. Whiteman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In Melanesians and Missionaries', one of the best of the younger generation of missionary anthropologists demonstrates that a commitment to the missionary enterprise on the part of a solid scholar facilitates, rather than hinders, the anthropological study of a missionary topic. This is better anthropology because Dr. Whiteman is able to probe more deeply into his topic and demonstrates that he understands and appreciates both Melanesians and missionaries. Charles H. Kraft, Professor of Anthropology, School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena
Book Synopsis The History of Melanesian Society by : William Halse Rivers Rivers
Download or read book The History of Melanesian Society written by William Halse Rivers Rivers and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Melanesian Society by : William Halse Rivers Rivers
Download or read book The History of Melanesian Society written by William Halse Rivers Rivers and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Melanesian Modernities by : Jonathan Friedman
Download or read book Melanesian Modernities written by Jonathan Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on the anthropology of modern Melanesia deals with topics such as: modern forms of kinship and reciprocity; the contemporary transformations of magic and witchcraft; the articulation of kinship organization and urbanization; the assimilation of urban trappings of modernity to interclan competition; and the politics of culture in Melanesian social movements. The notion of tradition is itself problematized here, rather than taken for granted, and the text contains one of the very last published articles of the late Roger Keesing, who pioneered the study of modern social and political realities in the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia by : Robert John Foster
Download or read book Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia written by Robert John Foster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving through which the living publicly define their social relations with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased. In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies brought about by colonialism and capitalism.
Book Synopsis From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology by : Bruce M. Knauft
Download or read book From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology written by Bruce M. Knauft and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Book Synopsis Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by : British Association for the Advancement of Science
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Centrism and Dualism. by : Benjamin Baumann
Download or read book On Centrism and Dualism. written by Benjamin Baumann and published by Galda Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the anthropological debate on house societies, pertaining particularly to Southeast Asian social formations. The book’s point of departure is a comparative model of social formations in Southeast Asia outlined by Shelly Errington. Although this model features prominently in anthropological discussions of the region, no detailed analysis of this comparative approach exists. This might be attributed to the fact that Errington’s model is theoretically dense, alluding to the rather complicated anthropological field of kinship studies. Errington’s model combines premises of Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Anthropology with Clifford Geertz’ symbolic or interpretative paradigm and situates the synthesis in the anthropology of insular Southeast Asia. This book traces the genealogy of this model and provides detailed explications of its basic theoretical premises before it explores the concept of house societies and how it is applied by Errington to approach and compare Southeast Asian social formations. The book reveals the structuralism that speaks through Errington’s comparative approach by discussing the concept of transformation and indicates the potentials and limitations a typology of different house societies has for the anthropology of Southeast Asia.
Book Synopsis Report of the Annual Meeting by : British Association for the Advancement of Science
Download or read book Report of the Annual Meeting written by British Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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