Ethnographic Presents

Terence E. Hays

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology | nr. 12
• Until the middle of this century, the Western world knew little about the peoples of the Central Highlands of what is now Papua New Guinea, and vice v... Lees meer

The Gender of the Gift

Marilyn Strathern

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology | nr. 6
• In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a part... Lees meer

The Heart of the Pearl Shell

James F Weiner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
• For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. Th... Lees meer

Maring Hunters and Traders

Christopher Healey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

A'Aisa's Gifts

Michele Stephen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology | nr. 13
• Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable co... Lees meer

Maring Hunters and Traders

Christopher Healey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Just Talk

Karen J Brison

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology | nr. 11
• Just Talk examines the often overlooked role of gossip and rumor in creating power in small Melanesian communities. The Kwanga of the East Sepik Provi... Lees meer

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology | nr. 2
• This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologi... Lees meer

The Heart of the Pearl Shell

James F Weiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
• For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. Th... Lees meer