Mekeo
Author : Epeli Hauʹofa
Publisher : Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Miami, Fla. : Books Australia
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Epeli Hauʹofa
Publisher : Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Miami, Fla. : Books Australia
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Reuter
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 192094270X
This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.
Author : Alan A. Jones
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN :
Author : Mark S. Mosko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521264525
This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society.
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1903 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110819724
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author : Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Islands of the Pacific
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Author : Steen Bergendorff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739142402
"Simple Lives, Cultural Complexity explores how people manage to live relativey simple lives while seemingly unaware of the cultural complexity they produce while doing so. Using complexity thoery, this book reconceptualizes culture as a complex dynamic system called "cultural complexity" and argues that cultural complexity arises from persistent interactions among people and groups who act according to simple rules. The order produced is different from, and not reducible to, the interactions that created it. People only need simple rules of engagement in order to cope with their surroundings: rules that can be enacted through all kinds of strategies, and that together produce very complex emergent properties. Steen Bergendorff argues that people do not need to know their entire "cultural order" and its formal logics to cope with everyday life. They do not need to be enculturated; they only need to be enskilled to act in everyday situations."--Pub. desc.
Author : Charles Gabriel Seligman
Publisher : Cambridge, U. P
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 1910
Category : History
ISBN :
Charles Gabriel Seligman (1873-1940) was a British ethnographer who conducted field research in New Guinea, Sarawak, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), and Sudan. Trained as a medical doctor, in 1898 he joined an expedition organized by Cambridge University to the Torres Strait, the body of water that separates the island of New Guinea from Australia. The purpose of the expedition was to document the cultures of the Torres Strait islanders, which were rapidly disappearing under the influence of colonization. In 1904, Seligman was one of three members of the Cooke Daniels Ethnographic Expedition to British New Guinea, funded by Denver, Colorado department store owner William Cooke Daniels. The Melanesians of British New Guinea contains a detailed record of much of Seligman's anthropological research conducted during the expedition. Seligman's findings demonstrated the striking physical and cultural differences between the western Papuans and his main preoccupation, their eastern neighbors, who had been more influenced by Melanesian immigration. The book established Seligman's reputation as an anthropologist, and remains an important source for the study of the traditional culture of the peoples of present-day Papua New Guinea. The book includes photographs, drawings, maps, and a glossary of indigenous terms.
Author : Ch.G. Seligman
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 5872846681