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Author : Anne Higgins Porter
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Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Cultures of Highland and Lowland New Guinea: a Comparison written by Anne Higgins Porter and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521217484
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Highland Peoples of New Guinea written by Paula Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-06-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago the New Guinea highlands were isolated and unknown to outsiders. As the highland peoples of New Guinea are among the last large groups to be brought into the world community, they are of major interest to ecologists, social anthropologists and cultural historians. This study synthesises previous anthropological research on the New Guinea highland peoples and cultures and demonstrates the interrelations of ecological adaptation, population and society. In describing, analysing and comparing the technology, culture and community life of peoples of the highland and the highland fringe, Professor Brown shows the special character of these societies, which have developed in isolation. In addition to examining the unique regional development of the New Guinea highland peoples, this book, a study in ecological and social anthropology, brings together theses two analytical fields and demonstrates their interrelationships.
Author : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429313
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book South Coast New Guinea Cultures written by Bruce M. Knauft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.
Author : Deborah B. Gewertz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521655675
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea written by Deborah B. Gewertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 book examines the emergence and ramifications of class in an urban setting in Papua New Guinea.
Author : James F. Weiner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063772
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mountain Papuans written by James F. Weiner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the Daribi, Foi, and Etoro societies of the southern New Guinea Fringe Highlands
Author : D. K. Feil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521131759
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies written by D. K. Feil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an explicitly comparative, anthropological analysis of the societies of the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea. Particular societies have been documented by anthropologists since the 1950s yet until this book's publication in 1987, there had been relatively few attempts at rigourous comparison of the findings. This book argues that the highlands cannot be treated as a homogeneous region, socially, culturally, historically or environmentally. Rather, societies of the eastern highlands have followed markedly different paths of development in the past to those of the western highlands, and it is upon this divergence that a comparative treatment of the twentieth century should be mounted.
Author : Tim Cornell
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851158709
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book War and Games written by Tim Cornell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These comparative studies focus on the relationship between war and games in an effort to achieve an understanding of the phenomenon of war, in order ultimately to avoid it. Out of the ten studies on war and games in this volume, the first five are historical, the next two are by anthropologists, and the last three concern modern war games. The purpose of this comparative study is to focus on the relationship between war and games by highlighting their differences and similarities in an effort better to understand the phenomenon of war. Americans and Europeans contribute studies on war and games in ancient Greece, the lack ofmilitary games in Byzantium, jousts in the middle ages, 'flower wars' and the Aztec and Maya ball game, games in pre-industrial societies and their relation to war, and aspects of computer and video games. Contributors T.B.ALLEN, T.J. CORNELL, M. HERMAN, BRUCE M. KNAUFT, C.M.MAZZUCCHI, P.A.G. SABIN, A.A. SHELTON, DAVID TURTON, T. ZOTZ.
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Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Lambda Alpha Journal of Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743216504
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Civilizations written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its difference from the unmodified natural environment"...by its taming and warping of climate, geography, and ecology. The same impersonal forces that put an ocean between Africa and India, a river delta in Mesopotamia, or a 2,000-mile-long mountain range in South America have created the mold from which humanity has fashioned its own wildly differing cultures. In a grand tradition that is certain to evoke comparisons to the great historical taxonomies, each chapter of Civilizations connects the world of the ecologist and geographer to a panorama of cultural history. In Civilizations, the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is not merely a Christian allegory, but a testament to the thousand-year-long deforestation of the trees that once covered 90 percent of the European mainland. The Indian Ocean has served as the world's greatest trading highway for millennia not merely because of cultural imperatives, but because the regular monsoon winds blow one way in the summer and the other in the winter. In the words of the author, "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations, it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period, or society by society." Thus, seventeen distinct habitats serve as jumping-off points for a series of brilliant set-piece comparisons; thus, tundra civilizations from Ice Age Europe are linked with the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest; and the Mississippi mound-builders and the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe are both understood as civilizations built on woodlands. Here, of course, are the familiar riverine civilizations of Mesopotamia and China, of the Indus and the Nile; but also highland civilizations from the Inca to New Guinea; island cultures from Minoan Crete to Polynesia to Renaissance Venice; maritime civilizations of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea...even the Bushmen of Southern Africa are seen through a lens provided by the desert civilizations of Chaco Canyon. More, here are fascinating stories, brilliantly told -- of the voyages of Chinese admiral Chen Ho and Portuguese commodore Vasco da Gama, of the Great Khan and the Great Zimbabwe. Here are Hesiod's tract on maritime trade in the early Aegean and the most up-to-date genetics of seed crops. Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations is a remarkable achievement...a tour de force by a brilliant scholar.
Author : David R. McDonald
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Masters' Theses in Anthropology written by David R. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
