An Introduction To The Anthropology Of Melanesia

Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521588367

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An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia by Paul Sillitoe Pdf

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 : Ann Chowning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 196?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488792717

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An Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Melanesia by Ann Chowning Pdf

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : John Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317044970

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The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond by John Barker Pdf

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 : Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520341388

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Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia by Gilbert H. Herdt Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521778069

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Social Change in Melanesia by Paul Sillitoe Pdf

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 : Eric Hirsch,Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450280

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Transactions and Creations by Eric Hirsch,Marilyn Strathern Pdf

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!

Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OCLC:223624269

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History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology by James G. Carrier Pdf

Author : Robert Henry Codrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCSD:31822012979324

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The Melanesians by Robert Henry Codrington Pdf

Author : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0472066870

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From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology by Bruce M. Knauft Pdf

A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520910710

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The Gender of the Gift by Marilyn Strathern Pdf

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 : Adolphus Peter Elkin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000131585

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Social Anthropology in Melanesia by Adolphus Peter Elkin Pdf

Author : Eric Hirsch,Will Rollason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315529677

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The Melanesian World by Eric Hirsch,Will Rollason Pdf

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 : Walter George Ivens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351338882

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Revival: Melanesians of the South-East Solomon Islands (1927) by Walter George Ivens Pdf

This book discusses the Melanesians of the South East Solomon Island; including an introduction to the people, their social organisation, and religious beliefs.

Author : Katharina Schneider
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857453020

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Saltwater Sociality by Katharina Schneider Pdf

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.