Growing Up In New Guinea

Author : Barbara Senft,Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264107

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Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea by Barbara Senft,Gunter Senft Pdf

This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education within their `own little community’ until they reach the age of seven years. During this time children enjoy much autonomy and independence. Attempts of parental education are confined to a minimum. However, parents use subtle means to raise their children. Educational ideologies are manifest in narratives and in speeches addressed to children. They provide guidelines for their integration into the Trobrianders’ “balanced society” which is characterized by cooperation and competition. It does not allow individual accumulation of wealth – surplus property gained has to be redistributed – but it values the fame acquired by individuals in competitive rituals. Fame is not regarded as threatening the balance of their society.

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018570371

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Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead Pdf

"Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time - after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children and the supernatural, which led her to see parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life."--Jacket.

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children
ISBN : OCLC:1244785356

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Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead Pdf

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:803527719

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Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead Pdf

Author : Geoff P. Smith
Publisher : Battlebridge Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Papua New Guinea
ISBN : UCSC:32106016513613

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Growing Up with Tok Pisin by Geoff P. Smith Pdf

Tok Pisin is the Pidgin English language that was introduced to Papua New Guinea in the late 19th century as a way for this linguistically complex society to communicate with a common language. This book provides the historical background for this language and a detailed account of the changes that are taking place in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar as it is increasingly adopted as the first language of young people throughout the country.

Author : MARGARET. MEAD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033504203

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GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA by MARGARET. MEAD Pdf

Author : John Barker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442601051

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Ancestral Lines by John Barker Pdf

In Ancestral Lines, which is based on 25 years of research among the Maisin people, Barker offers a nuanced understanding of how the Maisin came to reject commercial logging on their traditional lands.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743433249

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New Guinea Moon by Kate Constable Pdf

A captivating coming of age story for younger teens, set in New Guinea around the time of independence.

Author : Ruth Strother
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1604535253

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Margaret Mead by Ruth Strother Pdf

Explores the life and legacy of anthropolist Margaret Mead.

Author : Harald Beyer Broch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824812433

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Growing Up Agreeably by Harald Beyer Broch Pdf

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Children
ISBN : OCLC:779071605

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Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead Pdf

Author : Alexina Mary McWhinnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0415176409

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Adopted Children, how They Grow Up by Alexina Mary McWhinnie Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846148156

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The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond Pdf

From the author of No.1 international bestseller Collapse, a mesmerizing portrait of the human past that offers profound lessons for how we can live today Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond reveals how traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window onto how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. Drawing extensively on his decades working in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, Diamond explores how tribal societies approach essential human problems, from childrearing to conflict resolution to health, and discovers we have much to learn from traditional ways of life. He unearths remarkable findings - from the reason why modern afflictions like diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer's are virtually non-existent in tribal societies to the surprising benefits of multilingualism. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly original, The World Until Yesterday provides an enthralling first-hand picture of the human past that also suggests profound lessons for how to live well today. Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse, a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

Author : Marie Louise Seeberg,Elżbieta M. Goździak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319446103

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Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy by Marie Louise Seeberg,Elżbieta M. Goździak Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood. Childhood is a field of conceptual, moral and political contestation, where the ‘battles’ may range from minor tensions and everyday negotiations of symbolic or practical importance involving a limited number of people, to open conflicts involving violence and law enforcement. The chapters demonstrate the importance of how we understand phenomena involving children: when children are trafficked, seeking refuge, taken into custody, active in gangs or in youth organisations, and struggling with identity work. This book examines countries representing very different engagements and policies regarding migrancy and children. As a result, readers are presented with a comprehensive volume ideal for both the classroom and for policy-makers and practitioners. The chapters are written by experts in social anthropology, human geography, political science, sociology, and psychology.

Author : Maureen A. Molloy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824831165

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On Creating a Usable Culture by Maureen A. Molloy Pdf

Margaret Mead’s career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. In On Creating a Usable Culture, Maureen Molloy explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture and secured for herself a unique and enduring place in the American popular imagination. She considers this in relation to Mead’s four popular ethnographies written between the wars (Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies) and the academic, middle-brow, and popular responses to them. Molloy argues that Mead was heavily influenced by the debates concerning the forging of a distinctive American culture that began around 1911 with the publication of George Santayana’s "The Genteel Tradition." The creation of a national culture would solve the problems of alienation and provincialism and establish a place for both native-born and immigrant communities. Mead drew on this vision of an "integrated culture" and used her "primitive societies" as exemplars of how cultures attained or failed to attain this ideal. Her ethnographies are really about "America," the peoples she studied serving as the personifications of what were widely understood to be the dilemmas of American selfhood in a materialistic, individualistic society. Two themes subtend Molloy’s analysis. The first is Mead’s articulation of the individual’s relation to his or her culture via the trope of sex. Each of her early ethnographies focuses on a "character" and his or her problems as expressed through sexuality. This thematic ties her work closely to the popularization of psychoanalysis at the time with its understanding of sex as the key to the self. The second theme involves the change in Mead’s attitude toward and definition of "culture"—from the cultural determinism in Coming of Age to culture as the enemy of the individual in Sex and Temperament. This trend parallels the consolidation and objectification of popular and professional notions about culture in the 1920s and 1930s. On Creating a Usable Culture will be eagerly welcomed by those with an interest in American studies and history, cultural studies, and the social sciences, and most especially by readers of American intellectual history, the history of anthropology, gender studies, and studies of modernism.