A Melanesia Bibliography
Author : Terence Wesley-Smith
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Melanesia
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Author : Terence Wesley-Smith
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Melanesia
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Author : Eric Hirsch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845450281
In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!
Author : Clyde Romer Hughes Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Reference
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Author : Polynesian Society (Wellington, New Zealand)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1965
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 197?
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Author : Colin Filer
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Bibliographical literature
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Author : Katharina Schneider
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0857453017
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
Author : Monica Konrad
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781845450403
"Konrad has produced an exceptionally interesting and totally original book . . . a major contribution to social theory." - Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. Offsetting informants' local narratives against traditional Western folk models of the 'sexed' reproductive body, the book challenges some of the basic assumptions underlying conventional biomedical discourse of altruistic donation that clinicians and others promote as "gifts of life." It brings together a wide variety of literatures from social anthropology, social theory, cultural studies of science and technology, and feminist bioethics to discuss the relationship between recent developments in biotechnology and changing conceptions of personal origins, genealogy, kinship, biological ownership and notions of bodily integrity.
Author : Winston Halapua
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9789820203150
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Christianity
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