Download or read book Material Aspects of the Star Mountains Culture written by Simon Kooijman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Material culture critical concepts in the social sciences Vol 1 Pt 2 written by Victor Buchli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Nova Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecology of a Tool written by Pierre Perequin and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it is clear that an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on that small part of the Highlands where conditions for field research were more pleasant than elsewhere. This presentation of Irian Jaya axes therefore tackles a topic that remains mostly unexplored. Until now, stone tool research in New Guinea has followed an anthropocentric approach, in which tools are seen more as vectors for social exchanges than as means of acting on the environment. This monograph takes a different approach. Here, polished stone blades are placed at the center of the world, between, on one side, the transformed natural environment, and, on the other, the social and economic environment. This approach allows for a suggestion of new avenues of inference in archaeology, as well as to test and abandon existing ones. In this volume, the stone blade is considered as a living being, existing in balance within its biotope. This idea is not far removed from the beliefs of Irian Jaya farmers, for whom life animates certain objects of their material culture. Following a brief presentation of Irian Jaya, the function of polished stone blades in Irian Jaya societies and the distribution of hafting styles is described, defined and studied along with the quarrying zones and the areas of diffusion and use of their production. The different trends in each area of polished blade production and exchanges are also noted. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of the ethnoarchaeological potential of these contemporary observations.
Download or read book Androgynous Objects written by Maureen Anne MacKenzie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea. The web of meanings 'woven' into the bag is shown to extend beyond women's lives and bodies. It is open to manipulation and reformation in a variety of contexts and is used by both Telefol women and men to explore, and so explain the complexities and ambiguities inherent in their social life.
Download or read book The Legacy of Afekan written by Wilson G. Wheatcroft and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Explanation of Culture Change Models in Prehistory written by Colin Renfrew and published by [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue Subjects written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drinking Smoke written by Mac Marshall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco kills 5 million people every year and that number is expected to double by the year 2020. Despite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives. The author uses a relatively new concept called a syndemic—the synergistic interaction of two or more afflictions contributing to a greater burden of disease in a population—to focus at once on the health of a community, political and economic structures, and the wider physical and social environment and ultimately provide an in-depth analysis of smoking’s negative health impact in Oceania. In Drinking Smoke the idea of a syndemic is applied to the current health crisis in the Pacific, where the number of deaths from coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease continues to rise, and the case is made that smoking tobacco in the form of industrially manufactured cigarettes is the keystone of the contemporary syndemic in Oceania. The author shows how tobacco consumption (particularly cigarette smoking after World War II) has become the central interstitial element of a syndemic that produces most of the morbidity and mortality Pacific Islanders suffer. This syndemic is made up of a bundle of diseases and conditions, a set of historical circumstances and events, and social and health inequities most easily summed up as “poverty.” He calls this the tobacco syndemic and argues that smoking is the crucial behavior—the “glue”—holding all of these diseases and conditions together. Drinking Smoke is the first book-length examination of the damaging tobacco syndemic in a specific world region. It is a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Pacific studies, history, and economic globalization, as well as for public health practitioners and those working in allied health fields. More broadly the book will appeal to anyone concerned with disease interaction, the social context of disease production, and the full health consequences of the global promotional efforts of Big Tobacco.
Download or read book The Art of Oceania written by Louise Hanson and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Architecture Building Materials and Engineering Management written by He Tao Hou and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 2993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Building Materials, (3rd CEABM 2013), May 24-26, 2013, Jinan, China
Download or read book Anthropology in the New Guinea Highlands written by Terence E. Hays and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1976 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Made in Niugini written by Paul Sillitoe and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sweet Potato in Oceania written by Chris Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The goals, stated or implicit, included: a review of the status of knowledge about sweet potato in Oceania, covering advances in agronomic, botanical, archaelogical and ethnographic understanding; a regional overview, integrating advances in both Polynesia and Melanesia; an assessment of the significance of sweet potato in the region, relative to other crops, other introductions or innovations; and the identification of areas for future research. This volume is not intended as a comprehensive statement on the topic - one obvious deficiency in our coverage is the limited discussion of recent genetic work - but it should provide a useful statement of developments since 1974 in our understanding of sweet potato's history in Oceania and serve as a spur to further, more focused research."--P. v.
