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Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History, Terence Hays
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Since the 1960s, ethnobiology has gone beyond the documentation of plants and animals deemed “useful” in specific societies’ economies, or those that are “good to think” in their cosmological systems, to a nomothetic investigation of folk conceptualizations of the natural world as organizations of cultural knowledge. “General principles” and “universals” in the classification and naming of living things have been proposed that now play a major role in our growing understanding of human cognition.
Failure Of Treatment / Book Review, Terence Hays
Failure Of Treatment / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
This is an extraordinary book, and one that I believe is unique in the literature of medical anthropology. Inspired by Victor Turner's "social drama, the extended case method" (p. 3), Gilbert Lewis presents "the ethnography of an illness" (p. 1), a detailed—sometimes day-by-day—account of a protracted illness suffered by Dauwaras, a Gnau-speaking man of the upper Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
The Sweet Potato And Oceania, Terence Hays
The Sweet Potato And Oceania, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Debates about the introduction and diffusion of Ipomoea batatas in the Pacific have gone on for a century although largely without the benefit of a thorough botanical understanding of the plant. That is now provided in Yen’s monograph, which synthesizes the results and implications of his own two decades of research with the now massive literature on the subject.
Language And Cultural Description, Terence Hays
Language And Cultural Description, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Beginning in the late 1950s, Charles Frake was among those (including Harold Conklin and Ward Goodenough) who founded the blend of cognitive psychology, descriptive linguistics, and cultural anthropology which came to be known as “the New Ethnography” or “cognitive anthropology.”
Exchanging The Past, Terence Hays
Exchanging The Past, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
In 1980-1982, Bruce Knauft and Eileen Cantrell conducted fieldwork among the Gebusi people of the remote Nomad region of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Then, "indigenous customs seemed robust as well as profound" (p.13), including one of the highest homocide rates in the world, rooted sorcery accusations derived from spirit medium seances.
Tzeltal Folk Zoology, Terence Hays
Tzeltal Folk Zoology, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
In some respects, this volume might be viewed as a companion piece to Berlin et al.’s Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification. It deals with the same people of highland Chiapas, Mexico, and an earlier version was Hunn’s doctoral thesis, supervised by Berlin. Nevertheless, it can also clearly stand on its own as a significant contribution to ethnology, with additional relevance to biosystematists, ecologists, linguists, and psychologists.
Auyana, Terence Hays
Auyana, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Sterling Robbins was one of four ethnographers who conducted fieldwork in the early 1960s as part of James B. Watson’s New Guinea Micro-evolution Project. As such he was unavoidably caught in the turmoil over how to deal with the “loose structure” of New Guinea highland societies.
Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays
Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Since Durkheim and Mauss, the study of folk classification has developed along two main lines: the predominantly British and French "soocial constructionist" tradition, and the largely American "ethnoscience" approach, to use Roy Ellen's designations (p. 4). Ellen is referring to the continuing contrast in the anthropological literature between analyses of folk classification systems which view them as primarily reflecting structural, sociological, cosmological, or symbolic concerns, and those which concentrate on the more mundane orderings of nature which employ perceptual (usually morphological) criteria.
Growth And Structure Of The Lexicon Of New Guinea Pidgin / Book Review, Terence Hays
Growth And Structure Of The Lexicon Of New Guinea Pidgin / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
New Guinea Pidgin (NGP) is the language of politics and the most widely used lingua franca in Papua New Guinea. It may also provide a crucial test case for theories of pidgin and creole languages and, more broadly, "for statements about the relationship between the internal and external history of language and that between linguistic variation and social stratification."
Grand Valley Dani, Terence Hays
Grand Valley Dani, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
The Dani must by now be the most familiar of all New Guinea Highlands peoples to anthropologists and students alike. Through Robert Gardner_s evocative film, Dead Birds, Peter Matthiessen_s novelistic, Under the Mountain Wall, and Karl Heider_s numerous scholarly papers, books, and films, they have been portrayed in various ways, always fascinating and ever eluding our complete understanding.
"They Are Beginning To Learn The Use Of Tobacco": Cultural Context And The Creation Of A Passion In Colonial Papua New Guinea, Terence Hays
"They Are Beginning To Learn The Use Of Tobacco": Cultural Context And The Creation Of A Passion In Colonial Papua New Guinea, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
No abstract provided.
Kuku--"God Of The Motuites": European Tobacco In Colonial New Guinea, Terence Hays
Kuku--"God Of The Motuites": European Tobacco In Colonial New Guinea, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
No abstract provided.
From Ethnographer To Comparativist And Back Again, Terence Hays
From Ethnographer To Comparativist And Back Again, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
"As I sat one night in 1972 during an 'umana ceremony in the men's house of a hamlet in Ndumba, a community in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, I reflected on how fortunate I was."
"No Tobacco, No Hallelujah": Missions And The Early History Of Tobacco In Eastern Papua, Terence Hays
"No Tobacco, No Hallelujah": Missions And The Early History Of Tobacco In Eastern Papua, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
No abstract provided.