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How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example
by Marshall Sahlins  Publisher Comments When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as...
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Cultural Identity & Ethnicity in the Pacific
by Jocelyn Linnekin Book News Annotation A dozen essays investigate the challenge to Western concepts of ethnicity provided by Pacific Islanders' emphasis on environment, behavior, and performance rather than kinship and ancestry as keys to identity. Also examines how these ideas have...
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Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction (Explorations in Anthropology)
by Jurg Wassmann Publisher Comments The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a "McDonald-ized" cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent...
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The pigs that ate the garden :a human ecology from Papua New Guinea
by Peter D Dwyer Publisher Comments An account of the subsistence ecology of the Etolo people of Papua New Guinea....
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Clio in Oceania :toward a historical anthropology
by Aletta Biersack Book News Annotation Positioned among historical and cultural studies and at a confluence of subdisciplines within anthropology, historical anthropology provides a forum within which to perpetuate the debates of the last two decades but on new and less parochial terrain...
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Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds: A McLellan Book
by Virginia Drew Watson Publisher Comments Anyan was born in the mid-1920s into the pre-metal culture of the Tairora of what is now called Papua New Guinea. Her early life was rooted in the traditions of her remote village, where she worked the land and took part in the rituals connected with...
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Women of Value Men of Renown
by Annette B Weiner Publisher Comments This study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, makes an interesting comparison with the work of pioneer ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, who conducted his seminal research there between 1915 and 1918...
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Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies (Explorations in Anthropology)
by Verena Keck Publisher Comments In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also...
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Wild People: Travels with Borneo's Head-Hunters
by Andro Linklater
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Lost Tribe: A Search Through the Jungles of Papua New Guinea
by Edward Marriott
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The Guruma Story
by Loreen Brehaut
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Paradise Portraying the New Guinea Highl
by Michael Ohanlon
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Pacific Islands 3RD Edition
by Douglas L Oliver
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Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
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Illinois Studies in Anthropology #16: Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
by Toby Alice Volkman
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Nest in the Wind Adventures in Anthropol
by Martha C Ward
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Fracturing Resemblances Identity & Mimet
by Simon Harrison
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Daughters of the Dreaming
by Diane Bell Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-326) and index....
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Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-Century Maori Leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Turuki
by Judith Binney Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [641]-653) and index....
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Land of the Spirit
by Muriel Porter Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-102)....
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