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Author : Adolphus Peter Elkin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000131585
Author : Adolphus Peter Elkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0758169108
Author : John Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317044970
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 : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0472066870
A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521588367
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 : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521778069
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 : Katharina Schneider
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857453020
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 : Edvard Hviding,Cato Berg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782383437
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 : Robert John Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521483328
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.
Author : Jonathan Friedman,James G. Carrier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UOM:39015040561840
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.
Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Representations Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822007858467
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.
Author : Eric Hirsch,Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450280
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 : Simon Harrison
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : 0719039118
Author : Eric Hirsch,Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204216
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 conomic 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 : W H R Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136304576
First published in 1999. This is Volume V of six of a series on Anthropology and Psychology. Written in 1928, this book is a collection of essays and series of memoirs on ethnological subjects that are scattered in volumes not readily accessible to students.
