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Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
by Stuart Banner  Publisher Comments During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in...
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
by Tim F Flannery Publisher Comments Humans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering...
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Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy
by Roger M Keesing Publisher Comments "Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people...
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Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in the World System
by Deborah Gewertz Publisher Comments Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centers of...
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The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World
by Bruce Knauft Publisher Comments What is it like for a native people of the rainforest to confront features of a modern world? In 1980-82, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea held elaborate ritual dances and spirit seances, practiced alternative sexual customs, and endured a very high rate...
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The Gender of the Gift
by Marilyn Strathern Publisher Comments In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike...
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The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, C. 1500-1900
by Ramya Sreenivasan Book News Annotation Padmini is a legendary--some say historical--queen in 14th-century Rajput renowned for her beauty and for immolating herself rather than submit to a suitor. Sreenivasan (history, State U. of New York-Buffalo) traces the multiple narrative traditions...
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Priests and Programmers (2ND 07 Edition)
by J. Stephen Lansing Publisher Comments For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in...
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A'Aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self (Stories in Melanesian Anthropology)
by Michele Stephen Publisher Comments Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, "A'aisa's Gifts" is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of...
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The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java
by Suzanne A Brenner Publisher Comments While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity...
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Anahulu Volume 2
by Patrick V Kirch Publisher Comments From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent...
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Mau Moko: The World of Māori Tatoo
by Ngahuia Awekotuku Publisher Comments In the traditional Māori world, the moko, the facial or body tatoo, was a sign of great mana and status. Male warriors wore elaborate tatoos on their faces and bodies; women took more delicate chin tatoos. After almost dying out in the twentieth...
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Islands of History (85 Edition)
by Marshall Davids Sahlins Publisher Comments Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands--Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand--whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and...
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Nga Morehu: The Survivors
by Judith Binney Publisher Comments This life history of eight Maori women is the first book in which different Maori women speak in their own words about the changing circumstances of their lives. All were brought up in small rural communities in the eastern part of the North Island of...
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Society and Cosmos :Chewong of Peninsular Malaysia, With a New Preface
by Signe Howell Book News Annotation A paperback reprint of the Oxford U. Press (1984) edition with a new preface. By concentrating on the rules surrounding everyday tasks, Howell (anthropology, U. of Oslo) obtained insight into this unusual tropical rainforest society. Annotation c...
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Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action
by Elizabeth Povinelli Publisher Comments How does an Aboriginal community see itself, its work, and its place on the land? Elizabeth Povinelli goes to the Belyuen community of northern Australia to show how it draws from deep connections between labor, language, and the landscape. Her findings...
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World of the Polynesians Seen Through Their Myths & Legends, Poetry, & Art
by Antony Alpers Publisher Comments Many Westerners have formed a picture of Polynesia based on the paintings of Gauguin and the fiction of writers like Somerset Maugham and Herman Melville. The land and its people seem to embody many of our most cherished illusions--especially those of...
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World That Was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River & the Lakes, South Australia
by Ronald Berndt Book News Annotation A detailed account of traditional Aboriginal life in southeastern Australia, recorded by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt for several years beginning in 1939 from some of the last people who had personal experience and memory of the Yaraldi...
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Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
by John B Haviland Synopsis In 1979 Roger Hart, who believed himself to be the last surviving member of the Barrow Point people, asked John B. Haviland to help him record his native language before it disappeared. Their project soon expanded into an effort to preserve the culture...
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Spirits in Culture, History and Mind
by J Mageo Publisher Comments "Spirits in Culture, History and Mind reintegrates spirits into comparative theories of religion, which have tended to focus on institutionalized forms of belief associated with gods. It brings an historical perspective to culturally patterned...
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