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Marta Rohatynskyj's Review Of Advertising Missionaries And Pacific Passages, Marta Rohatynskyj Jun 1999

Marta Rohatynskyj's Review Of Advertising Missionaries And Pacific Passages, Marta Rohatynskyj

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Andrew Strathern And Pamela J. Stewart's Review Of Donald Tuzin's The Cassowary’S Revenge: The Life And Death Of Masculinity In A New Guinea Society, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart Mar 1999

Andrew Strathern And Pamela J. Stewart's Review Of Donald Tuzin's The Cassowary’S Revenge: The Life And Death Of Masculinity In A New Guinea Society, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Jason Carter And Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi's Review Of Charlie Nairn's A Death To Pay For: Individual Voices, Jason Carter, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi Dec 1998

Jason Carter And Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi's Review Of Charlie Nairn's A Death To Pay For: Individual Voices, Jason Carter, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


History, Opposition, And Salvation In Agarabi Adventism, George Westermark Sep 1998

History, Opposition, And Salvation In Agarabi Adventism, George Westermark

Pacific Studies

Growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was particularly strong in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands in the last decade. This article discusses a variety of reasons for this change, emphasizing Adventist beliefs that create a distinct historical consciousness among church members. In the face of a rapidly changing society, it is argued, these beliefs structure an appealing ideological framework that facilitates both individual and collective transformation. Significant for Eastern Highland Adventists is a doctrine of opposition toward other Christian groups and a sense of their own unique role in the prophetic events that make up their historical model.


Netbags Revisited: Cultural Narratives From Papua New Guinea, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern Jun 1997

Netbags Revisited: Cultural Narratives From Papua New Guinea, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern

Pacific Studies

In this article we reconsider materials on netbags from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, as well as other parts of Melanesia, arguing that understanding of them is best set into a framework of ideas regarding embodiment and processes of trope expansion. Starting from the equation of netbag and womb, we trace the ramifications of this object of material culture and its contemporary significance in a commodifying context. Main emphasis is placed on materials from the Melpa or Mount Hagen area of the Western Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea, with comparisons to the cultures of the …


Dan Jorgensen's Review Of John Davis's Mountains Of Gold: The People Of Porgera, Dan Jorgensen Jun 1997

Dan Jorgensen's Review Of John Davis's Mountains Of Gold: The People Of Porgera, Dan Jorgensen

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Stuart Kirsch's Review Of Judith Hallet's Lords Of The Garden, Stuart Kirsch Jun 1997

Stuart Kirsch's Review Of Judith Hallet's Lords Of The Garden, Stuart Kirsch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Woman Who Ran Away: Gender, Power, And Place Among The Atbalmin Of The West Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Eytan Bercovitch Dec 1996

The Woman Who Ran Away: Gender, Power, And Place Among The Atbalmin Of The West Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Eytan Bercovitch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


From Pollution To Empowerment: Women, Age, And Power Among The Bena Bena Of The Eastern Highlands, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman Dec 1996

From Pollution To Empowerment: Women, Age, And Power Among The Bena Bena Of The Eastern Highlands, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Women At Kobum Spice Company: Tensions In A Local Age Stratification System And The Undermining Of Local Development, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi Dec 1996

The Women At Kobum Spice Company: Tensions In A Local Age Stratification System And The Undermining Of Local Development, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Making The Papua New Guinean Woman: The Extension Of Women’S Initiation Practices To Secondary Education In Central New Ireland, Karen Sykes Dec 1996

Making The Papua New Guinean Woman: The Extension Of Women’S Initiation Practices To Secondary Education In Central New Ireland, Karen Sykes

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Regional Anthropology In New Guinea: From The New Guinea Micro-Evolution Project To The A. B. Lewis Project And Beyond, Robert L. Welsch Sep 1996

Collaborative Regional Anthropology In New Guinea: From The New Guinea Micro-Evolution Project To The A. B. Lewis Project And Beyond, Robert L. Welsch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Ben Finney's Review Of Willie Dari, Vasiti Ligairi, And Solange Petit-Skinner's Adolescents In Fiji, Ben Finney Sep 1996

Ben Finney's Review Of Willie Dari, Vasiti Ligairi, And Solange Petit-Skinner's Adolescents In Fiji, Ben Finney

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


David Lipset's Review Of Michael French Smith's Hard Times On Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, And Morality In A Papua New Guinea Village, David Lipset Jun 1996

David Lipset's Review Of Michael French Smith's Hard Times On Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, And Morality In A Papua New Guinea Village, David Lipset

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Alexander H. Bolyanatz's Review Of Frederick K. Errington And Deborah B. Gewertz's Articulating Change In The “Last Unknown”, Alexander H. Bolyanatz Jun 1996

Alexander H. Bolyanatz's Review Of Frederick K. Errington And Deborah B. Gewertz's Articulating Change In The “Last Unknown”, Alexander H. Bolyanatz

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Kulbob And Manub: Past And Future Creator Deities Of Karkar Island, Romola Mcswain Dec 1994

Kulbob And Manub: Past And Future Creator Deities Of Karkar Island, Romola Mcswain

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Mala Among The Kowai, Anton Ploeg Dec 1994

Mala Among The Kowai, Anton Ploeg

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Kulbob And Manub: Past And Future Creator Deities Of Karkar Island, Romola Mcswain Dec 1994

Kulbob And Manub: Past And Future Creator Deities Of Karkar Island, Romola Mcswain

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Mala Among The Kowai, Anton Ploeg Dec 1994

Mala Among The Kowai, Anton Ploeg

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Lamont Lindstrom's Review Of Gerald Haberkorn's Port Vila: Transit Station Or Final Stop?, Lamont Lindstrom Jun 1994

Lamont Lindstrom's Review Of Gerald Haberkorn's Port Vila: Transit Station Or Final Stop?, Lamont Lindstrom

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Nationalism And Sexuality In Papua New Guinea, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi Dec 1993

Nationalism And Sexuality In Papua New Guinea, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Terence E. Hays's Review Of Christin Kocher Schmid's Of People And Plants: A Botanical Ethnography Of Nokopo Village, Madang And Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea, Terence E. Hays Jun 1993

Terence E. Hays's Review Of Christin Kocher Schmid's Of People And Plants: A Botanical Ethnography Of Nokopo Village, Madang And Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea, Terence E. Hays

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Terence E. Hays's Review Of Christin Kocher Schmid's Of People And Plants: A Botanical Ethnography Of Nokopo Village, Madang And Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea, Terence E. Hays Jun 1993

Terence E. Hays's Review Of Christin Kocher Schmid's Of People And Plants: A Botanical Ethnography Of Nokopo Village, Madang And Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea, Terence E. Hays

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review Forum On Deborah B. Gewertz And Frederick K. Errington's Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing The Chambri In A World System, Deborah B. Gewertz, Frederick K. Errington, Nelson H. H. Graburn, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin Mar 1993

Book Review Forum On Deborah B. Gewertz And Frederick K. Errington's Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing The Chambri In A World System, Deborah B. Gewertz, Frederick K. Errington, Nelson H. H. Graburn, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Marty Zelenietz's Review Of Alice Pomponio's Seagulls Don’T Fly Into The Bush: Cultural Identity And Development In Melanesia, Marty Zelenietz Mar 1993

Marty Zelenietz's Review Of Alice Pomponio's Seagulls Don’T Fly Into The Bush: Cultural Identity And Development In Melanesia, Marty Zelenietz

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Rascals In Paradise: Urban Gangs In Papua New Guinea, Nand E. Hart Nibbrig Sep 1992

Rascals In Paradise: Urban Gangs In Papua New Guinea, Nand E. Hart Nibbrig

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Mac Marshall's Review Of Ron Brunton's The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava And Cultural Instability In Melanesia, Mac Marshall Jun 1992

Mac Marshall's Review Of Ron Brunton's The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava And Cultural Instability In Melanesia, Mac Marshall

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Terence E. Hays's Review Of Mary Taylor Huber's The Bishops’ Progress: A Historical Ethnography Of Catholic Missionary Experience On The Sepik Frontier, Terence E. Hays Mar 1991

Terence E. Hays's Review Of Mary Taylor Huber's The Bishops’ Progress: A Historical Ethnography Of Catholic Missionary Experience On The Sepik Frontier, Terence E. Hays

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Domestic Violence And Social Relations Of Conflict In Fiji, Pauline Mckenzie Aucoin Jul 1990

Domestic Violence And Social Relations Of Conflict In Fiji, Pauline Mckenzie Aucoin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Rule By The Danda: Domestic Violence Among Indo-Fijians, Shireen Lateef Jul 1990

Rule By The Danda: Domestic Violence Among Indo-Fijians, Shireen Lateef

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.