An Anthropologist In Papua

Author : Michael W. Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthropologist in Papua written by Michael W. Young and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully presented hard cover book features the work and photography of FE Williams, Government Anthropologist in the Australian Territory of Papua from 1922 to 1939. It includes a substantial essay by social anthropologist Michael W Young and historian and curator Julia Clark.

Author : Michael French Smith
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082485344X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Faraway, Familiar Place written by Michael French Smith and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Faraway Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea is for readers seeking an excursion deep into little-known terrain but allergic to the wide-eyed superficiality of ordinary travel literature. Author Michael French Smith savors the sometimes gritty romance of his travels to an island village far from roads, electricity, telephone service, and the Internet, but puts to rest the cliché of “Stone Age” Papua New Guinea. He also gives the lie to stereotypes of anthropologists as either machete-wielding swashbucklers or detached observers turning real people into abstractions. Smith uses his anthropological expertise subtly, to illuminate Papua New Guinean lives, to nudge readers to look more closely at ideas they take for granted, and to take a wry look at his own experiences as an anthropologist. Although Smith first went to Papua New Guinea in 1973, in 2008 it had been ten years since he had been back to Kragur Village, Kairiru Island, where he was an honorary “citizen.” He went back not only to see people he had known for decades, but also to find out if his desire to return was more than an urge to flee the bureaucracy and recycled indoor air of his job in a large American city. Smith finds in Kragur many things he remembered fondly, including a life immersed in nature and freedom from 9-5 tyranny. And he again encounters the stifling midday heat, the wet tropical sores, and the sometimes excruciating intensity of village social life that he had somehow managed to forget. Through practicing Taoist “not doing” Smith continues to learn about villagers’ difficult transition from an older world based on giving to one in which money rules and the potent mix of devotion and innovation that animates Kragur’s pervasive religious life. Becoming entangled in local political events, he gets a closer look at how ancestral loyalties and fear of sorcery influence hotly disputed contemporary elections. In turn, Kragur people practice their own form of anthropology on Smith, questioning him about American work, family, religion, and politics, including Barack Obama’s campaign for president. They ask for help with their financial problems—accounting lessons and advice on attracting tourists—but, poor as they are, they also offer sympathy for the Americans they hear are beset by economic crisis. By the end of the book Smith returns to Kragur again—in 2011—to complete projects begun in 2008, see Kragur’s chief for the last time (he died later that year), and bring Kragur’s story up to date. A Faraway Familiar Place provides practical wisdom for anyone leaving well-traveled roads for muddy forest tracks and landings on obscure beaches, as well as asking important questions about wealth and poverty, democracy, and being “modern.”

Author : Terence E. Hays
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520077454
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnographic Presents written by Terence E. Hays and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-09-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the frontier suggests excitement, danger, and heroism, not to mention backbreaking labor. All these aspects of exploring the unknown enliven Ethnographic Presents, where the frontier is the Highlands region of what is now Papua New Guinea - a part of the world largely unseen by Westerners as late as 1950. In the next five years a dozen or so pioneering anthropologists followed closely on the heels of "first contact" patrols. Their innovative fieldwork is well documented, and now, in an autobiographical collection that is intimate and richly detailed, we learn what these ethnographers experienced: what being on the frontier was like for them. The anthropologists featured in these seven new essays are Catherine H. Berndt, Ronald M. Berndt, Reo Fortune (by Ann McLean), Robert M. Glasse, Marie Reay, D'Arcy Ryan, and James B. Watson. Their pioneering ethnographic adventures are put in historical context by Terence Hays, and a concluding essay by Andrew Strathern points out that this early work among the peoples of the Central Highlands not only influenced all subsequent understanding of Highland cultures but also had a profound impact on the field of anthropology.

Author : John Barker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9781442601055
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Lines written by John Barker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancestral Lines, which is based on 25 years of research among the Maisin people, Barker offers a nuanced understanding of how the Maisin came to reject commercial logging on their traditional lands.

Author : Herbert Ian Hogbin
Publisher : Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology in Papua New Guinea: Readings from the Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea written by Herbert Ian Hogbin and published by Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings from the encyclopedia of Papua and New Guinea.

Author : Jenny Munro
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785337599
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams Made Small written by Jenny Munro and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Dani men and women, asking us to think differently about education as a trajectory for transformation and belonging, and ultimately revealing how dreams of equality are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

Author : Don Kulick
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616209046
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death in the Rainforest written by Don Kulick and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.

Author : Papua. Government Anthropologist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology written by Papua. Government Anthropologist and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael W. Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthropologist in Papua written by Michael W. Young and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hayano
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478632178
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road through the Rain Forest written by David Hayano and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the remote, steep slopes of the grassland and rain forests of Highland Papua New Guinea, live the Awa, subsisting on root crops and raising domestic pigs. Like many cultures, the Awa must deal with and find solutions to the problems of human social existence: inevitable and rapid culture change, interpersonal squabbles, lying and deceit, adultery, sorcery, and unexpected death. They wait ambivalently for the building of a road that would put them in direct contact with the encroaching world of trade stores, outdoor markets, schools, and the government station. In the middle of this walks an anthropologist who learns that fieldwork is first and foremost about understanding lives, both his and theirs. This book is a personal narrative that provides an intimate glimpse of the actual conduct of fieldwork among diverse individuals with remarkably distinct views of their own culture. It is an account of intertwined lives—of living anthropology—and a road of hope and promise, despair and tragedy.