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Author: Gilbert H. Herdt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351321307 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 568
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Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to anthropologists of the late twentieth century. When in an earlier time anthropologists and sociologists described collective initiation rituals, the political and gender aspects of these practices were seldom underscored. Today, the power relationships of the body and domination, and the social arena of gender politics are widely regarded as critical to the cultural meaning and interpretation.
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351321307 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 568
Book Description
Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to anthropologists of the late twentieth century. When in an earlier time anthropologists and sociologists described collective initiation rituals, the political and gender aspects of these practices were seldom underscored. Today, the power relationships of the body and domination, and the social arena of gender politics are widely regarded as critical to the cultural meaning and interpretation.
Author: Maurice Godelier Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521312127 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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This book presents a detailed account of the lives of the Baruya, a tribal society in highlands of Papua New Guinea and will interest scholars and students of anthropology.
Author: Julius Chan Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 0702257036 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 258
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‘...a fascinating account of one of the most important figures in PNG's first 40 years of Independence.’ – Sean Dorney, journalistBorn on a remote island in Papua New Guinea to a migrant Chinese father and indigenous mother, Julius Chan overcame poverty, discrimination, and family tragedy to become one of Papua New Guinea’s longest-serving and most influential politicians.His 50-year career, including two terms as Prime Minister, encompasses a crucial period of Papua New Guinea’s history, particularly its coming of age from an Australian colony to a leading democratic nation in the South Pacific. Chan has played a significant role during these decades of political, economic and social change. Playing the Game offers unique insights into one of the world’s most ancient and complex tribal cultures. It also explores the vexed issues of increasing corruption, government failure, and the unprecedented exploitation of its precious natural resources.In the first memoir by a Papua New Guinean leader in forty years, Sir Julius Chan explores his decision in 1997 to hire a private military force, Sandline International, to quell the ongoing civil crisis in Bougainville. This controversial deal sparked worldwide outrage, cost Sir Julius the prime ministership and led to ten years in the political wilderness. He was re-elected as Governor of New Ireland in 2007, aged 68, a seat he has held ever since.Playing the Game is an authentic and compelling account of Chan’s private and political life, and offers a rare insight into how the modern nation of Papua New Guinea came to be, the vision and values it was founded on, and the extraordinary challenges it faces in the 21st century.
Author: Sean Dorney Publisher: ISBN: 9780733309458 Category : Papua New Guinea Languages : en Pages : 335
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Fully revised edition of a book first published in 1990. Includes new prologue and author's note. An exploration of Papua New Guinea's past and present including analysis of the country's independence in 1975, the Bougainville crisis, and relations with Indonesia. Includes index. Author is an ABC correspondent who has reported on Papua New Guinea for more than a decade. He won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the Aitape tsunami disaster in 1998, and was awarded an AM in the 2000 Australia Day Honours list.
Author: Michael Clark Rockefeller Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 102
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From April to August 1961, Michael Rockefeller served as sound recordist and photographer on a multidisciplinary expedition to highland New Guinea. In five months he produced over 4,000 black and white negatives. In this catalogue of over 75 photographs, Bubriski explores Rockefeller's journey into the culture and community of the Dani people.
Author: Michael J. Leahy Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817304460 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Explorations into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935 is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit--not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches--by one such adventurer, Michael "Mick" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor.
Author: Donald Tuzin Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226819501 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village’s men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate women for generations. The cult’s collapse indicated nothing less than the death of masculinity, and Tuzin examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, self-devastating act. The villagers' mythic tradition provided a basis for this revenge of Woman upon the dominion of Man, and, remarkably, Tuzin himself became a principal figure in its narratives. The return of the magic-bearing "youngest brother" from America had been prophesied, and the villagers believed that Tuzin’s return "from the dead" signified a further need to destroy masculine traditions. The Cassowary's Revenge is an intimate account of how Ilahita’s men and women think, emote, dream, and explain themselves. Tuzin also explores how the death of masculinity in a remote society raises disturbing implications for gender relations in our own society. In this light Tuzin's book is about men and women in search of how to value one another, and in today's world there is no theme more universal or timely.
Author: Don Kulick Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 161620947X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned. Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you can’t study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they speak every day, and even more, how they live. This book takes us inside the village as Kulick 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 swamp, in the middle of a tropical rainforest. These are fascinating, readable stories of what the people who live in that village eat for breakfast and how they sleep; about how villagers discipline their children, how they joke with one another, and how they swear at one another. Kulick tells us how villagers worship, how they argue, how they die. Finally, though, this is an illuminating look at the impact of white culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to leave and give up his study of this language. Smart, engaging, and perceptive, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that will soon disappear forever.
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
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Author: Julius Chan
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Author: Michael Clark Rockefeller
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Author: Don Kulick