Melanesia has always been a popular fieldwork site for anthropologists, including Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead. Many of the most important theoretical contributions to anthropology were first formulated with reference to Melanesian studies. This book is intended for undergraduate students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline. It will be useful at an introductory or intermediate level for undergraduate studies in general anthropology, or for courses on Pacific cultures.
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Melanesia has always been a popular fieldwork site for anthropologists, including Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead,and many of the most important theoretical contributions to anthropology were also first formulated with reference to Melanesian studies. This book is intended for undergraduate students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline. It will be useful as an introductory or intermediate level for undergraduate studies in general anthropology, or for courses on Pacific Cultures.
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Melanesia is a region in the South-West Pacific made up of a number of islands varying in size from the world's second-largest island, New Guinea, to small coral islets like the Solomon's Reef Islands (Map 1.1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sociopolitical exchange, big man status, ancestral skull, cult house, salt producers, kula ring, ethnographic monographs, pig herds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Cambridge University Press, New York, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, South-East Asia, Academic Press, Sepik River, Admiralty Islands, Fly Estuary, Star Mountains, Trobriand Islands, After Ohtsuka, Ann Arbor, Australian National University Press, Dobu Island, Manchester University Press, Mount Hagen, Palo Alto, South-West Pacific, University of Washington Press New!
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Melanesia is a region in the South-West Pacific made up of a number of islands varying in size from the world's second-largest island, New Guinea, to small coral islets like the Solomon's Reef Islands (Map 1.1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sociopolitical exchange, big man status, ancestral skull, cult house, salt producers, kula ring, ethnographic monographs, pig herds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Cambridge University Press, New York, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, South-East Asia, Academic Press, Sepik River, Admiralty Islands, Fly Estuary, Star Mountains, Trobriand Islands, After Ohtsuka, Ann Arbor, Australian National University Press, Dobu Island, Manchester University Press, Mount Hagen, Palo Alto, South-West Pacific, University of Washington Press New!
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- Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski on page 82, and page 83
- Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) by John Connell on page 16
- The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Annette B. Weiner on page 82
- Cultures of the Pacific by Thomas G. Harding on page 16
- Sleeping Beauty (The storyteller library) by Jenny Press on page 229
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- Lithic Analysis (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique) by George H. Odell in Back Matter
- Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands (Studies in Environmental Anthropology) by Paul Sillitoe in Back Matter
- Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies by Joseph Henrich on page 258
- Archaeology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by Colin Renfrew on page 101
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