Download or read book Annual Report on British New Guinea from with Appendices written by Papua and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papua New Guinea s Last Place written by Adam Reed and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.
Download or read book On the Order of Chaos written by Mark S. Mosko and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world’s leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai – have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology’s distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1904 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyses the social customs and organization of the Western Torres Strait Islanders; myths and folk-tales, nature myths; genealogies of Mabuiag; social and place related aspects of totemism, Yam, Saibai; magic connected with turtle fishing, initiation and funeral ceremonies at Pulu; initiation at Kiwai, Cape York and Muralug; land tenure and inheritance at Mabuiag; trade between Moa, Yam, Saibai, Pacific Islands; religion in Pacific Islands, Thursday Island, Torres Strait; cult of Kwoiam; warfare between Mabuiag men and the men of Moa; marriage, courtship, in Muralug.
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume Iii Linguistics written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume 3 Linguistics written by A. C. Haddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a series compiling the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo. Written entirely by Sidney H. Ray, a prominent member of the expedition and a renowned scholar of Melanesian languages, the text details a variety of the region's languages.
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume 1 General Ethnography written by A. C. Haddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume compiles the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo.
Download or read book The Kula written by Martha MacIntyre and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-05-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Download or read book Report of the Meteorological Council written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plumes from Paradise written by Pamela Swadling and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.
Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library I P written by Dennis O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Always Hungry Never Greedy written by Miriam Kahn and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1993-12-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wamira people of Papua New Guinea display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a feast, are all questions uppermost in their thoughts. Wamirans account for this preoccupation by saying that they suffer from perpetual famine. They explain this by means of an elaborate and colorful myth about Tamodukorokoro, a monster who would have brought them abundant food, but whom, in typical Wamiran style of fearing what they desire, they chased away. In this carefully crafted and beautifully evocative book, Kahn, who lived with the Wamira people for two and a half years, argues that Wamirans famine has in fact little to do with the belly. For Wamirans, concepts of food and hunger are cultural constructs. By means of food, they objectify emotions, balance relations between men and women, communicate rivalries among men, and ultimately, control the ambivalent desires that they fear would otherwise control them. Effectively combining analyses of myths and symbols with analytical accounts of subsistence and ritual behavior, Kahn writes with a degree of nuance that takes the reader beyond academic analyses into the experience of the ethnographer and the daily lives of the people with whom she resided.
Download or read book Mines and Quarries General Report with Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
