Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific – serie
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Foodways and Empathy
Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2013
1880 kr
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Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another's lives and ponder one another's states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, …
Foodways and Empathy
Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 2016
527 kr
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Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another’s lives and ponder one another’s states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, …
Biomedical Entanglements
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a …
Culture Change and Ex-Change
Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Av Regina Knapp
Inbunden, 2017
1897 kr
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How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on ‘culture change’, ‘exchange’ and ‘person’ in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way …
Selfhood and Recognition
Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality
Inbunden, 2017
1861 kr
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The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of …
Biomedical Entanglements
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a …
Adoption, Emotion, and Identity
An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society
Inbunden, 2024
1649 kr
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Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees’ inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are …
Experiencing New Worlds
Av Jürg Wassmann, Katharina Stockhaus
Inbunden, 2007
1861 kr
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The many different localities of the Pacific region have a long history of transformation, under both pre- and post-colonial conditions. More recently, rates of local transformation have increased tremendously under post-colonial regimes. The forces of globalization, which rapidly distribute …
Person and Place
Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu
Av Sabine Hess
Inbunden, 2009
1921 kr
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Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn …
Landscapes of Relations and Belonging
Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in …
