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Visual Research And Indonesian Ethnography - Beyond Description

by Karl Heider

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 This book focuses on how visual records â€" mainly on film or video â€" can provide data for research and presents a variety of visual projects drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia.
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Honour, Mana, And Agency In Polynesian-European Conflict

by Annette Wilkes

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 Focusing on the era of â€˜first encountersâ€™ in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships.
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Situating The Uyghurs Between China And Central Asia

by Ildiko Beller-Hann, Joanne Smith Finley e M. Cristina Cesaro

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 Drawing together distinguished international scholars, this volume offers a unique insight into the social and cultural hybridity of the Uyghurs. The work is comparative and interdisciplinary in focus and bridges a gap in our understanding of this group.
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Migrating Genders - Westernisation, Migration, And Samoan Fa''Afafine

by Johanna Schmidt

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 Presents a sustained description of male-to-female transgendered identities, explaining how the fa'afafine fit within the wider gender system of Samoa and examining both the impact of westernisation on fa'afafine identities and lives, and the experiences of fa'afafine who have migrated to New Zealand.
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Gender, Christianity And Change In Vanuatu - An Analysis Of Social Movements In North Ambrym

by Annelin Eriksen

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 Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, this fascinating book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change.
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Family, Gender And Kinship In Australia - The Social And Cultural Logic Of Practice And Subjectivity

by Allon J. Uhlmann

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 This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia.
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Making Of Global And Local Modernities In Melanesia - Humiliation, Transformation And The Nature Of Cultural Change

by Holly Wardlow

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 Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins'' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins'' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.
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Of Marriage, Violence And Sorcery - The Quest For Power In Northern Queensland

by David Mcknight

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 This is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between marriage, violence and sorcery in an Australian Aboriginal community. Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery offers an archive of valuable primary materials, drawing on the authorâ€™s forty-year knowledge of the community on Mornington Island.
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My God, My Land - Interwoven Paths Of Christianity And Tradition In Fiji

by Jacqueline Ryle

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 Examining the multifaceted nature of Christianity in Fiji, My God, My Land reveals the deeply complex and often paradoxical dynamics and tensions between processes of change and continuity as they unfold in representations and practices of Christianity and tradition in people''s everyday lives. The book draws on extensive, multi-sited fieldwork in different denominations to explore how shared values and cultural belonging are employed to strengthen relations. As such My God, My Land will be of interest to anthropologists of Oceania as well as scholars and students researching into social and cultural change, ritual, religion, Christianity, enculturation and contextual theology.
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Caste, Occupation And Politics On The Ganges - Passages Of Resistance

by Assa Doron

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 This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. Assa Doron examines the evolution of the boatmen community, drawing on a variety of sources to illuminate the cultural politics of social and economic inequality in contemporary India. Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges offers insight into recent debates about the cultural and historical forms of social practice and resistance at the juncture between tradition and the global economy, and will therefore appeal not only to anthropologists, but to anyone working in the field of development studies, globalization, religion, politics and cultural studies.
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Aboriginal Art, Identity And Appropriation

by Elizabeth Burns Coleman

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 In this work, Elizabeth Burns Coleman analyses art from an Australian Aboriginal community to interpret Aboriginal claims about the relationship between their art, identity and culture, and how the art should be protected in law. This is an issue equally relevant to North American debates about the appropriation of indigenous art, and the book additionally engages with this literature.
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Expressive Genres And Historical Change - Indonesia, Papua New Guinea And Taiwan

by Andrew Strathern

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 This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. The contributors have all carried out first-hand fieldwork, often over a period of many years, and they bring their experience to bear on both the aesthetic and the analytical aspects of their materials.
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Domestic Mandala - Architecture Of Lifeworlds In Nepal

by John Gray e John N. Gray

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 A rich and fascinating ethnography of domestic architecture and activities among the high caste Chhetris of Kholagaun in Nepal, this book focuses on the spatial organization, everyday activities and ritual performances that generate and display Chhetri houses as 'mandalas', sacred diagrams that are both maps of the cosmos and machines for revelation. Describing the orientation and layout of the Chhetri house and surrounding compound; it shows how the orientation and distribution of everyday social activities with the domestic mandala shape people's experience of the enigmas of their lifeworld as householders; and analyses the double significance of rituals that take place in the domestic mandala. By treating the Nepali house as more than just the background of people's everyday life, the author reveals the Chhetri everyday lifeworld as a revelation of Hindu tantric cosmology, its enigmatic illusion, and the path to liberation from it. The themes addressed in the book make a unique contribution to the fields of anthropology, architecture and human geography.
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Mortality, Mourning And Mortuary Practices In Indigenous Australia

by Myrna Tonkinson e Victoria Burbank

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 Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of death. The contributors employ their contemporary and long-term anthropological fieldwork with indigenous Australians to construct rich accounts of indigenous practices and beliefs and to engage with questions relating to the frequent experience of death within the context of unprecedented change and premature mortality. The volume makes use of extensive empirical material to address questions of inequality with specific reference to mortality, thus contributing to the anthropology of indigenous Australia whilst attending to its theoretical, methodological and political concerns. As such, it will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to those interested in social inequality, the social and psychosocial consequences of death, and the conceptualization and manipulation of the relationships between the living and the dead.
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Collective Creativity - Art And Society In The South Pacific

by Katherine Giuffre

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 Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a ’collective’ theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network analysis.
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Islamic Spectrum In Java

by Timothy Daniels

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 Explores the different aspects of cultural politics in the world's most populous Muslim nation. This book engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, and ceremonies and rituals.
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Aboriginal Family And The State - The Conditions Of History

by Sally Babidge

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 Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal ''traditional owners''. Drawing on detailed empirical research, it develops a discussion of the anthropological issues of kinship and relatedness within colonial and ''postcolonial'' contexts. This volume explores the conditions affecting the formation of ''family'' among indigenous people in rural northern Australia, as well as the contingencies of ''family'' in the legal and political context of contemporary indigenous claims to land. With a rich discussion of the production, practice and inscription of social relations, this volume examines everyday expressions of ''family'', and events such as meetings and funerals, demonstrating that kinship is formed and reformed through a complicated social practice of competing demands on identity.
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Anthropology Of Morality In Melanesia And Beyond

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 The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. Taking Kenelm Burridge’s seminal work as their starting point, the contributors focus upon public situations and types of people that exemplify key ethical contradictions for members of moral communities. While returning to some classical concerns, such as the roles of big men and sorcerers, the book opens new territory with richly textured ethnographic studies and theoretical reviews that explore the interface between the values associated with indigenous village life and the ethical orientations associated with Christianity, the state, the marketplace, and other facets of ’modernity''. A major contribution to the emerging field of the anthropology of morality, the volume includes some of the most prominent scholars working in the discipline today, including Bruce Knauft, Joel Robbins, F.G. Bailey,Â Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.

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