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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
by Douglas L Oliver  Synopsis This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia....
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Beyond the Sea
by Michael Moran Synopsis This text presents a romantic and adventurous look at the remarkably diverse cultures of the hidden paradise islands surrounding Papua New Guinea. The islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas were the last inhabited places on earth to be explored...
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New Guinea Ceremonies
by David Gillison Publisher Comments When David Gillison first arrived in New Guinea in 1973, ceremonies marking birth, death, initiation, and marriage were still being conducted by the Gimi tribe as they had been for thousands of years. Today, many of the Gimi's indigenous traditions, like...
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Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies
by Edward Schieffelin Publisher Comments This book is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern-day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography, and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, blood...
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Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji (New Cultural Studies)
by Anne E Becker Synopsis In Body, Self, and Society Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and...
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Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia
by Harvey Arden Synopsis Cast a aside all things familiar and join Harvey Arden on an extraordinary spirit-journey into the minds, hearts, and dreams of australia's aboriginal peoples, custodians of the oldest culture on earth. Through haunting photographs and an exquisitely...
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The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia
by Ronald M Berndt Publisher Comments MYTHOLOGY / ABORIGINAL CULTUREThe 195 stories collected in this first anthology of Aboriginal myth were told to anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, who spent nearly fifty years working among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. The Berndts...
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The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World
by Ira Bashkow Publisher Comments A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the...
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Cannibal Talk (05 Edition)
by Obeyesekere Publisher Comments In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly cannibal talk, a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders...
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Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
by Alex Calder Synopsis From an interdisciplinary standpoint, this book shows how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the ruin of indigenous cultures or the mimicry of European models by an...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #1: Classificatory Particles in Kilivila
by Gunter Senft Publisher Comments Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while...
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Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
by Jennifer Deger Publisher Comments How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge in the creation of documentary? Jennifer Deger addresses these questions in her compelling study of one...
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Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition
by Adolphus P. Elkin Publisher Comments ANTHROPOLOGY / RELIGIONThe first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degreepresents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation...
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Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership & the Postcolonial State
by Geoffrey M White Publisher Comments This volume presents detailed analyses of the accommodations between chiefs and states in fourteen Pacific societies....
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Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium (Mythos)
by Kenelm Burridge Publisher Comments Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships...
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Bernatzik: South Pacific
by Kevin Conru Publisher Comments Showcases the extraordinary photographs taken in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the early 1930's by Austrian writer and ethnographer Hugo Bernatzik....
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Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village
by Michael Frenc Smith Synopsis This book follows the difficult lives of people living in the village of Kragur in Papua New Guinea. They have been in poverty since European contact and now must find a way to become prosperous....
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Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies
by H C Coombs Publisher Comments A plea for a just society, this book is about reconciliation with Australia’s Aboriginal people....
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #15: Oral Traditions of Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands
by Richard Feinberg Publisher Comments Anuta is a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands that has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the end of the twentieth century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific...
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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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