Author: W. H R RiversPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia
Author: W. H R RiversPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia
Author: William Halse Rivers RiversPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melanesia
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia
Author: William Halse Rivers RiversPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depopulation (Criminal law)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Reading 1922
Author: Michael NorthPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modernism but which served as the cradle for a host of major political and aesthetic transformations resonating around the globe. In his previous study, the acclaimed Dialect of Modernism (OUP, 1994), Michael North looked at the racial and linguistic struggles over the English language which gave birth to the many strains of modernism. Here, he expands his vision to encompass the global stage, and tells the story of how books changed the future of the world as we know it in one unforgettable year.
Population, Reproduction, and Fertility in Melanesia
Author: Stanley J. UlijaszekPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571816443
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
Author: Gilbert H. HerdtPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984. This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture
The London Quarterly Review
Author: Population Problems of the Pacific
Author: Stephen Henry RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asians
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Semisi Nau, the Story of My Life
Author: Semisi NauPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201149
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom
Author: David W. AkinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824838157
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the island’s first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the book’s heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. The movement’s ideology, kastom, was grounded in the determination that only Malaitans themselves could properly chart their future through application of Malaitan sensibilities and methods, free from British interference. Kastom promoted a radical transformation of Malaitan lives by sweeping social engineering projects and alternative governing and legal structures. When the government tried to suppress Maasina Rule through force, its followers brought colonial administration on the island to a halt for several years through a labor strike and massive civil resistance actions that overflowed government prison camps. David Akin draws on extensive archival and field research to present a practice-based analysis of colonial officers’ interactions with Malaitans in the years leading up to and during Maasina Rule. A primary focus is the place of knowledge in the colonial administration. Many scholars have explored how various regimes deployed “colonial knowledge” of subject populations in Asia and Africa to reorder and rule them. The British imported to the Solomons models for “native administration” based on such an approach, particularly schemes of indirect rule developed in Africa. The concept of “custom” was basic to these schemes and to European understandings of Melanesians, and it was made the lynchpin of government policies that granted limited political roles to local ideas and practices. Officers knew very little about Malaitan cultures, however, and Malaitans seized the opportunity to transform custom into kastom, as the foundation for a new society. The book’s overarching topic is the dangerous road that colonial ignorance paved for policy makers, from young cadets in the field to high officials in distant Fiji and London. Today kastom remains a powerful concept on Malaita, but continued confusion regarding its origins, history, and meanings hampers understandings of contemporary Malaitan politics and of Malaitan people’s ongoing, problematic relations with the state.