Ӧmie Sex Affiliation

Marta Rohatynskyj

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 14
• The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Pap... Lees meer

The Polynesian Iconoclasm

Jeffrey Sissons

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 5
• Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed... Lees meer

Fire on the Island

Tom Bratrud

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 13
• In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with 'spiritual vision'. How... Lees meer

Engaging with Strangers

Debra McDougall

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 6
• The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically f... Lees meer

Wind Over Water

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 2
• Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captur... Lees meer

Money Games

Anthony J Pickles

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 10
• Gambling in Papua New Guinea, despite being completely absent prior to the Colonial era, has come to supersede storytelling as the region's main night... Lees meer

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Keir Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 3
• In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and... Lees meer

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Keir Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 3
• In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and... Lees meer

Dreams Made Small

Jenny Munro

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 9
• For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of... Lees meer

Mortuary Dialogues

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 7
• Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examine... Lees meer

Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 11
• The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authent... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Empathy

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 1
• Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It p... Lees meer

Mortuary Dialogues

• Paperback | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 7
• Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examine... Lees meer

Engaging with Strangers

Debra McDougall

• Paperback | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 6
• The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically f... Lees meer

Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 8
• How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating... Lees meer

Wind Over Water

• Paperback | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 2
• Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captur... Lees meer

In Memory of Times to Come

Melissa Demian

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 12
• Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw "globalization" come and go. Suau peopl... Lees meer

Christian Politics in Oceania

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 2
• The phrase "Christian politics" evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian ch... Lees meer

Creating a Nation with Cloth

Ping-Ann Addo

• Hardcover | Engels | Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology | nr. 4
• Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural tr... Lees meer