Author: British New Guinea. Administrator
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Category : Papua
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Papua
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Adam Reed
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571816948
Category : Prison discipline
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.

Author: Alfred Cort Haddon
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: Papua
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Mark S. Mosko
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800735189
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world’s leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai – have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology’s distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

Author: Robert Wood Williamson
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Describes and analyses the social customs and organization of the Western Torres Strait Islanders; myths and folk-tales, nature myths; genealogies of Mabuiag; social and place related aspects of totemism, Yam, Saibai; magic connected with turtle fishing, initiation and funeral ceremonies at Pulu; initiation at Kiwai, Cape York and Muralug; land tenure and inheritance at Mabuiag; trade between Moa, Yam, Saibai, Pacific Islands; religion in Pacific Islands, Thursday Island, Torres Strait; cult of Kwoiam; warfare between Mabuiag men and the men of Moa; marriage, courtship, in Muralug.

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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9781001423364
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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