Growing Up On The Trobriand Islands In Papua New Guinea

Author : Barbara Senft,Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062566133

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Growing Up in New Guinea by Margaret Mead Pdf

Now with a new introduction by Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Mead's second book following her landmark Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea established Mead as the first anthropologist to look at human development in a cross-cultural perspective. Margaret Mead was 23 when she traveled alone to Samoa on her first expedition to the South Seas. Her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, chronicled that visit and launched her distinguished career. Following her landmark field work focusing on girls in American Samoa, noted anthropologist Margaret Mead found that she needed to study preadolescents in order to understand adolescents. In 1928 she went to Manus Island in New Guinea, where she studied the play and imaginations of younger children and how they were shaped by adult society. Mead and her second husband, Reo Fortune, lived in 24-hour contact with the inhabitants of this fishing village.

Author : Lois Bastide,Denis Regnier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000683882

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Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands by Lois Bastide,Denis Regnier Pdf

The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary mutations of Pacific Island families and the shifting understandings of violence in the context of rapid social change, this book investigates the conflict dynamics generated by these transformations. The contributors draw from detailed case studies in a range of Pacific territories to examine family violence in relation to the social, economic and political situation of native populations as well as individual, collective and institutional responses to the development of violence within and upon the family. They focus on vernacular understandings, conflicting social norms, the emergence of different types of violent patterns, the impact of violence on individuals and communities, and local attempts at mitigating or combating it. Combining ethnographic expertise with engaged scholarship, this volume offers a vivid account of ongoing social change in Pacific Island societies and a crucial contribution to the understanding of family violence as a social process, cultural construct, and political issue. This book will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of violence and the family, Pacific studies, development studies, and the social and cultural anthropology of Oceania.

Author : Ceridwen Spark
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921902444

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Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960–1975 by Ceridwen Spark Pdf

Australians in Papua New Guinea provides a history of the late Australian years in Papua New Guinea through the eyes of 13 Australians and four Papua New Guineans by presenting the experiences of Australians who went to work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) over several decades before the 1970s. This extraordinary book balances expatriates with indigenous Papua New Guineans, balances gender, and pioneers an innovative combination of written reminiscences and interviews that reveal the impact of Australian colonial policy on pre-indendence PNG. It follows medical practitioners Michael Alpers, Ken Clezy, Margaret Smith, Ian Maddocks, and Anthony Radford (with accompanying reflections by wife, Robin) who grappled with complex medical issues in difficult surroundings. Other contributors—John Langmore, John Ley, and Bill Brown—became experts in governance. The final group featured was involved in education and social change: Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, and Christine Stewart. Papua New Guinean contributors: medical expert Sir Isi Henao Kevau, diplomats Charles Lepani and Dame Meg Taylor, and educator and politician Dame Carol Kidu further deepen the insights of this collection. A final reflection is provided by historian Jonathan Ritchie, himself part of an Australian family in PNG. The history of this important Pacific nation unfolds as do the histories of individuals who were involved in its formative decades.

Author : David Matsumoto,Hyisung C. Hwang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190679767

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The Handbook of Culture and Psychology by David Matsumoto,Hyisung C. Hwang Pdf

Cultural and cross-cultural psychology and research continue to make strong contributions to mainstream psychology. Researchers and theoreticians from all parts of the globe increasingly contribute to this endeavor, enabling cultural and cross-cultural psychology and research to be one of the most exciting areas of study in psychology. This book describes the continued evolution and advancement of the main research domains of cultural and cross-cultural psychology. Renowned authors not only review the state-of-the-art in their respective fields but also describe the challenges and opportunities that their respective research domains face in the future. New chapters cover the teaching of a culturally informed psychology and the increasing changes and advancements of cultures and societies around the world and their impact on individual psychologies. This volume covers standard areas of well-studied concepts such as development, cognition, emotion, personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and acculturation, as well as emerging areas such as multicultural identities, cultural neuroscience, and religion. It is a must read for all culturally informed scholars, both beginning and experienced.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268266

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Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea by Gunter Senft Pdf

This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are presented in morpheme-interlinear transcriptions with first textlinguistic analyses and cultural background information necessary to fully understand them. A summarizing comparative analysis of the texts from a psycholinguistic, anthropological linguistic and philological point of view discusses the underlying schemata of the stories, the means narrators use to structure them, their structural complexity and their cultural specificity.

Author : Alexander Wanek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136779091

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The State and Its Enemies in Papua New Guinea by Alexander Wanek Pdf

A study of nation-building processes in the young state of Papua New Guinea, and of opposition to these in one of the country's peripheral provinces, Manus. Intense resistance to Lucifer (the state) is offered there by Wind Nation, the old Paliau Movement made famous by Mead and Schwartz.

Author : Rolf Husmann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3894733527

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A Bibliography of Ethnographic Films by Rolf Husmann Pdf

Author : Jordan Dean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1925795675

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Rose Lives in The Trobriand Islands by Jordan Dean Pdf

This is Rose. She lives in the Tobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. The I Am PNG series introduces readers to children from all around Papua New Guinea. This is a beautifully illustrated book for 4-8 year old readers. Proceeds from this sale benefit nonprofit organisation Library For All, helping children around the world learn to read.

Author : Annette B. Weiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39076002771546

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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner Pdf

Book about the social life and customs of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

Author : Arnd Schneider,Christopher Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189476

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Anthropology and Art Practice by Arnd Schneider,Christopher Wright Pdf

Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of both fields, this cutting-edge study tackles current issues such as the role of the artist in collaborative work, and the political uses of documentary. The book focuses on key works from artists and anthropologists that engage with 'art-ethnography' and investigates the processes and strategies behind their creation and exhibition.The book highlights the work of a new generation of practitioners in this hybrid field, such as Anthony Luvera, Kathryn Ramey, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Kate Hennessy and Jennifer Deger, who work in a diverse range of media - including film, photography, sound and performance. Anthropology and Art Practice suggests a series of radical challenges to assumptions made on both sides of the art/anthropology divide and is intended to inspire further dialogue and provide essential reading for a wide range of students and practitioners.

Author : Renée C. Fox
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785271434

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Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist by Renée C. Fox Pdf

"Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist" is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide unique insight on such enduring—and pressing—issues as the lived experiences of physicians and patients, including patients who are physically challenged, elderly, mortally ill or beyond the reach of medical care; the origins and consequences of epidemic outbreaks of old and new plague-like infectious diseases that occur and recur, despite the impressive advances of medicine; the concomitants and challenges of aging; the wellsprings, dynamics and significance of medical humanitarian action; engagement with a “beyond borders” world view; the occurrence of national and international events of major moral as well as political and legal import and repercussions; and the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching, exploring, questing and writing. Latently associated with these themes are the author’s social values and social conscience. Composing these essays from a participant observer outlook heightens and enriches the author’s observations over the course of her daily life, enabling her to engage in “mind travel” to places and people she has intimately known in the past and to places she has yearningly hoped to visit but never has.

Author : Terence Wesley-Smith,Michael P. Hamnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : UOM:39015079939560

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A Melanesia Bibliography by Terence Wesley-Smith,Michael P. Hamnett Pdf

Author : Lenora Foerstel
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781566392617

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Confronting Margaret Mead by Lenora Foerstel Pdf

The legendary Margaret Mead changed Americans' views of themselves by relating information collected from remote peoples to our society--a society that she did not consider necessarily to be the pinnacle of human development. However, Mead and her followers have been criticized for promulgating sensationalized and inaccurate images of Melanesian societies, including savagery, cannibalism, and wanton sexuality. This book deals with the consequences of such Western condescension. Destined to be highly controversial, this book for the first time brings a multicultural outlook to bear on Margaret Mead, scrutinizing her role and impact on Western anthropology, colonialism, and strategic and business interests in the South Pacific. The contributors, most of them avowedly activist supporters of the concept of a nuclear-free and independent Pacific, include Warilea Iamo, Papua New Guinea's first anthropologist; John D. Waiko, Director of the New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research; Nahau Rooney, the daughter of one of Mead's informants, and; Susanna Ounei, a leader of a New Caledonian independence front. Author note: Lenora Foerstel is an instructor in Ethnohistory at the Maryland College of Art. She was a member of the 1953 American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Manus Island, led by Dr. Margaret Mead. Angela Gilliam teaches at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She has served as adviser to the Papua New Guinea Permanent Mission to the United Nations on New Caledonia.

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265890

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Imdeduya by Gunter Senft Pdf

This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s intention to marry the girl so famous for her beauty, on his long journey to Imdeduya’s village and on their tragic love story. The texts are compared with each other with a final focus on the clash between orality and scripturality. Contrary to Kasaipwalova’s fixed poetic text, the oral Imdeduya versions reveal the variability characteristic for oral tradition. This variability opens up questions about traditional stability and destabilization of oral literature, especially questions about the changing role of myth – and magic – in the Trobriand Islanders' society which gets more and more integrated into the by now “literal” nation of Papua New Guinea.