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A quarterly journal of social and cultural anthropology, oriented toward the peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Southeast Asia. Includes peer-reviewed papers resulting from ethnographic research as well as review articles and paper
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War shields of the Torricelli Mountains, west sepik province, Papua New Guinea.(Report)
November 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
Researchers at Field Museum, Chicago, have analysed the distribution of over 6,000 ethnographic objects collected mainly by A.B. Lewis during 1909-10 along the north coast of New Guinea, from Jayapura (West Papua) to Madang (Papua New Guinea) (see Terrell & Welsch 1990;...
The 'global' versus the 'local': cognitive processes of Kin determination in aboriginal Australia.(Report)
November 1, 2008... It is common sense that the advancement of science is cumulative, that each generation builds upon the findings of previous ones, and that revealed mistakes are revised rather than repeated. This, however, is common sense; and common sense does not necessarily have to be what is most...
'We don't do dots--ours is lines'--asserting a Barkindji style.(Report)
November 1, 2008... The Aboriginal artists from Wilcannia and Broken Hill with whom I work consider their 'art style' and 'art designs' in localised (if not always clearly specified) ways and terms encapsulated by the phrase 'ours is lines'. It is to the localised assertions of the particularity and importance...
'Tomorrow comes when tomorrow comes': managing aboriginal health within an ontology of life-as-contingent.(Report)
November 1, 2008... INTRODUCING THE ISSUES
We have worked in neighbouring Aboriginal communities within central and central-western New South Wales which are historically and culturally similar: Gaynor Macdonald with Wiradjuri communities since 1981 and Daniela Heil since 1998 with members of neighbouring...
Heroic history and chiefly chapels in 19th Century Tahiti.(Report)
November 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION
On Tuesday, 11 May, 1819 almost the entire Christian population of Tahiti -between five and six thousand people--assembled in the recently completed Royal Mission Chapel, a monumental building constructed under the direction the ari'i (high chief), Pomare. The length of two...