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  • Peace-Making and the Imagination

    Papua New Guinea Perspectives

    by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J Stewart ...
    A compelling new book that presents a thoughtful and creative approach to transforming violent discordances, this work examines the intractable issues of revenge and restitution in a conflict context. It argues that in communities where violence must be paid for through compensation, violent conflict can be contained. With primary reference to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and comparisons to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Landscape, Memory and History

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, it is a broad study that will appeal to a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sacred Revenge in Oceania

    by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Violence
    Revenge is an important motivation in human affairs relating to conflict and violence, and it is a notable feature in many societies within Oceania, where revenge is traditionally a sacred duty to the dead whose spirits demand it. Revenge instantiates a norm of reciprocity in the cosmos, ensuring a balance between violent and peaceful sequences of ritual action. Revenge further remains an ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Remaking the World

    Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea

    by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry
    Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. The authors provide in-depth ethnographic materials on the Duna and present many ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

    by Professor Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Religion
    Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they change over time? Such ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Ritual

    by Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays in Anthropology
    This volume consists of a number of carefully-selected readings that represent a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. The selection encompasses definitional questions, issues of interpretation, meaning, and function, and a roster of ethnographic and analytical topics, covering classic themes such as ancestor worship and sacrifice, initiation, gender, healing, social change, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Kinship in Action

    Self and Group

    by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J Stewart ...
    **For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.**Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted, general, introductory works and readers in the topic, but theoretical discussions have been stimulated both by technological changes in mechanisms of reproduction and by reconsiderations of how to define kinship in the most productive ways for cross ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Expressive Genres and Historical Change

    Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan

    by Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    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. Research from New Guinea, Indonesia and Taiwan is used to assess how historical changes modify these forms of expression to adjust to the social and political needs of the moment. The volume is unique in exploring ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • What Kinship Is-And Is Not

    by Marshall Sahlins ...
    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Purity and Danger

    An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    by Professor Mary Douglas ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Deep Time Dreaming

    Uncovering Ancient Australia

    by Billy Griffiths ...
    With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD