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      The Python’s Back: Pathways of Comparison Between Indonesia and Melanesia

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern

      Building on an incipient tendency to make comparisons between Indonesian and Melanesian cultural themes, this study makes a fresh comparison of themes that interrelate ethnographies of eastern Indonesia (for example…

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      Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern

      This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and wellness through an examination of a rich set of ethnographic materials from the Pacific…

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      Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern

      The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands…

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

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern

      Explores 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. This…

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      Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan

      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. The…

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

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern

      Explores 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. This…

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      Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives

      American, Australian and British scholars examine the significance of the use of landscape for studies of identity

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      Breaking the Frames: Anthropological Conundrums

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern

      This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one…

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      Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea

      Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart

      How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the…

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      Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea

      Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart

      How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the…

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      Breaking the Frames: Anthropological Conundrums

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern

      This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one…

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      The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology

      Andrew J. Strathern

      This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics…

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      The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology

      Andrew J. Strathern

      This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics…

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      Language and Culture in Dialogue

      Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart

      In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between language in particular and culture in general by focusing on language as both social practice and…

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      Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern

      By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all…

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      Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices

      Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern

      By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all…

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      Violence: Theory and Ethnography

      Dr Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew Strathern

      Exploring the meanings and contexts in which violent actions occur, this text stresses the powerful underlying motivation for revenge and the connection between ideas of revenge and concepts of justice…

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      Language and Culture in Dialogue

      Andrew Strathern,Professor Pamela J. Stewart

      In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between language in particular and culture in general by focusing on language as both social practice and…

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      Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip

      Pamela J. Stewart (University of Pittsburgh),Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh)

      Combines the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip.

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      Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip

      Pamela J. Stewart (University of Pittsburgh),Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh)

      Combines the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip.

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      Sacred Revenge in Oceania

      Pamela J. Stewart (University of Pittsburgh),Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh)

      Explores revenge as a motivation relating to conflict and violence. Looks at Oceania, where revenge is traditionally a sacred duty to the dead whose spirits demand it. Beyond Oceania, revenge…

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      Anthropology and Consultancy: Issues and Debates

      Providing consultation to government and other agencies has become a part of a life in anthropology, but often such work causes practical, theoretical and ethical difficulties. In this collection of…

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      Kinship in Action: Self and Group

      Pamela J Stewart,Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

      For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology

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      Kinship in Action: Self and Group

      Pamela J Stewart,Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

      Kinship has made a come-back in anthropology. Taking an explicitly processual approach, the authors examine definitions of terms such as kinship itself, approach the topic in a way that is…

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      Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

      Professor Pamela J. Stewart (University of Pittsburgh, USA),Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

      Written with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, Ritual: Key Concepts in Religious Studies surveys the field of ritual studies looking at it both historically within…

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      Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

      Professor Pamela J. Stewart (University of Pittsburgh, USA),Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

      Written with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, Ritual: Key Concepts in Religious Studies surveys the field of ritual studies looking at it both historically within…

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      Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable

      Examines the social impact of terror – how it provokes different responses in perpetrators, victims and observers.

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      Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies

      Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental…

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