From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and AnthropologyUniversity of Michigan Press, 1999 - 320 páginas 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. |
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Cultural Substances and Natural Metaphors | 21 |
and Amazonia | 157 |
PostMelanesian Studies? A Contemporary Look | 195 |
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