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Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin
Contradiction and Ambiguity in Ruwund (Lunda) Symbolic Thought
Inbunden, 2006
911 kr
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Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin presents a detailed understanding and analysis of the ideology of kingship among the Aruwund (Lunda) of southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In doing so the text is drawn into addressing a range of important regional themes: the debate on the concept of the …
Sin, Sex and Stigma
A Pacific Response to HIV and AIDS
Inbunden, 2010
1165 kr
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What happens to national HIV programmes when Science and Religion collide and when both ignore the setting of most infections: in or on the way to marriage? HIV and AIDS are serious social and public-health problems in Papua New Guinea. After long delays, community-, business- and faith-based …
Mutuality and Empathy
Self and Other in the Ethnographic Encounter
Av Anne Sigfrid Gronseth, Dona Lee Davis
Inbunden, 2010
911 kr
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Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and other, as experienced in the everyday challenges of doing participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual construction of the field. The contributors adopt a …
Shark Warrior of Alewai
A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity
Inbunden, 2012
993 kr
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The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people of south-eastern Papua New Guinea, The Shark Warrior of Alewai considers oral histories and Western historical documents that cover a period of more than 200 years in the light of an ethnography of contemporary Christianity. Van …
Living with Things
Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling
Häftad, 2011
410 kr
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Based primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practices of inhabitation, from moving in or being modernized to the daily accommodation of sleep and children. It provides a demonstration of what happens to consumption research when it comes home and is …
