UID:
almafu_9960120031502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-08499-2
Content:
This book is an explicitly comparative, anthropological analysis of the societies of the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea. Particular societies have been documented by anthropologists since the 1950s yet until this book's publication in 1987, there had been relatively few attempts at rigourous comparison of the findings. This book argues that the highlands cannot be treated as a homogeneous region, socially, culturally, historically or environmentally. Rather, societies of the eastern highlands have followed markedly different paths of development in the past to those of the western highlands, and it is upon this divergence that a comparative treatment of the twentieth century should be mounted.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontispiece -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of maps and tables -- Preface -- Prologue: anthropology in the Papua New Guinea highlands -- An approach to comparison -- Configurations of highlands societies -- An evolutionary perspective -- Comparative dilemmas and methodological pitfalls -- Papua New Guinea highlands prehistory: a social anthropologist's view -- Environmental contrasts -- Archaeological contrasts -- The sweet potato -- Some further points -- Conclusion -- Configurations of intensity -- People and pigs -- Pigs and sweet potatoes -- Pigs and related facts -- The rise of intensified production -- Warfare -- Types of warfare -- Casualties -- Marriage and warfare -- Compensation -- Migration and mobility -- Conclusion: symmetry and complementarity -- Leadership and politics -- Bigmen, despots, great-men and others -- An alternative view -- Great-men -- Despots -- Bigmen and before -- Conclusion -- Social structure -- Descent in the highlands -- Comparative trends -- The ethnography -- Conclusion -- Male-female relations -- Male initiations and male-female relations: the theoretical past -- 'RH' in 'SWNG' -- 'Brideservice societies' -- Baruya and Sambia sexual relations -- The 'nama' region -- Central Wahgi societies -- The 'western highlands' -- Conclusion -- Ceremonial exchange -- Scale -- Contexts -- 'Home production', finance and consumption -- Units -- Partnerships -- Moka and tee (and mok ink): their interrelated past -- The paradox of exchange -- The legacy of the past -- Renewed warfare -- Bigmen and 'big peasants' -- Males and females -- The resilience of ceremonial exchange -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-13175-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-33423-3
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084994
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