Social Anthropology In Melanesia
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Author |
: Adolphus Peter Elkin |
Publisher |
: Greenwood |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000131585 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Anthropology in Melanesia by : Adolphus Peter Elkin
Author |
: Adolphus Peter Elkin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0758169108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780758169105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Anthropology in Melanesia by : Adolphus Peter Elkin
Author |
: Katharina Schneider |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857453013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857453017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Saltwater Sociality by : Katharina Schneider
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
Author |
: Bruce M. Knauft |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472066870 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472066872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology by : Bruce M. Knauft
A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Author |
: Paul Sillitoe |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 1998-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521588367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521588362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia by : Paul Sillitoe
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 Barker |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 429 |
Release |
: 2016-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317044970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317044975 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond by : John Barker
The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. Taking Kenelm Burridge’s seminal work as their starting point, the contributors focus upon public situations and types of people that exemplify key ethical contradictions for members of moral communities. While returning to some classical concerns, such as the roles of big men and sorcerers, the book opens new territory with richly textured ethnographic studies and theoretical reviews that explore the interface between the values associated with indigenous village life and the ethical orientations associated with Christianity, the state, the marketplace, and other facets of ’modernity'. A major contribution to the emerging field of the anthropology of morality, the volume includes some of the most prominent scholars working in the discipline today, including Bruce Knauft, Joel Robbins, F.G. Bailey, Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.
Author |
: Paul Sillitoe |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2000-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521778069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521778060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Change in Melanesia by : Paul Sillitoe
This book, first published in 2000, is a companion volume to An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia (1998). It gives a clear and absorbing account of social change in Melanesia since the arrival of Europeans covering the history of the colonial period and the new postcolonial states. Paul Sillitoe deals with economic and technological change, labour migration and urbanisation, and formation of the modern state, but he also describes the sometimes violent reactions to these dramatic transformations, in the form of cargo cults, secession movements, and insurrections against multinational companies. He discusses development projects but brings out associated policy dilemmas, reviews developments that threaten the environment, and implications for local identity, such as romanticises 'primitive culture'. This fascinating account of social change in the pacific is addressed to students with little or no background in the region's history and development.
Author |
: Adolphus Peter Elkin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1950 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:154144107 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Anthropology in Melanesia by : Adolphus Peter Elkin
Author |
: Edvard Hviding |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2014-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782383437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782383433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethnographic Experiment by : Edvard Hviding
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers’ later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart’s work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume—who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked—give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
Author |
: Adolphus Peter Elkin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 1953 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:560019418 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Anthropology in Melanesia. A Review of Research, Etc by : Adolphus Peter Elkin