| Description |
x, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Melanesia as "culture area" -- Bodily images in Melanesia : cultural substances and natural metaphors -- Warfare and history in Melanesia -- Gender and modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia -- Post-Melanesian studies? a contemporary look at the anthropology of Melanesia |
| Summary |
Publisher description: What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology's most important and intensively studied world regions? In this book, Professor Bruce Knauft draws together and critically reanalyzes what we know about major features of Melanesian cultural history, warfare and politics, gender, bodily practices, and spirituality as discerned from more than a century of academic study. From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology is arguably the most comprehensive single reassessment of Melanesia as an ethnographic world area to have been published in several decades. Written for students as well as professional scholars, this work further broadens our understanding by analyzing the history of Melanesian ethnography and relating this history to the larger relationship between Melanesia as a contemporary world area and anthropology as a field of contemporary human study. ". . . a splendid scholarly contribution, unique in its aims and achievements for Melanesia as a culture area and the implications of accumulated knowledge for anthropology as a whole." --Gilbert Herdt, San Francisco State University Bruce M. Knauft is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, and the author of three previous books as well as some thirty journal articles and chapters. Knauft's interests span a wide range of issues in the anthropology of Melanesia and he is articulate with general issues of cultural theory and anthropological history |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-307) and index |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Melanesia.
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Ethnology -- Melanesia -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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| LC no. |
98040153 |
| ISBN |
0472096877 acid-free paper |
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0472066870 paperback acid-free paper |
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