Recently added articles from Oceania:
War shields of the Torricelli Mountains, west sepik province, Papua New Guinea.(Report)
Nov 01, 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 ...
The 'global' versus the 'local': cognitive processes of Kin determination in aboriginal Australia.(Report)
Nov 01, 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)
Nov 01, 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 ...
'Tomorrow comes when tomorrow comes': managing aboriginal health within an ontology of life-as-contingent.(Report)
Nov 01, 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 ...
Heroic history and chiefly chapels in 19th Century Tahiti.(Report)
Nov 01, 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 ...
A political history of Nagriamel on Santo, Vanuatu.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The political movement known as Nagriamel that developed after World War II on Santo Island in Vanuatu is a particularly good example of how the liberating dimension of an 'indigenist' movement can evolve into the traditionalist reinvention of a pre-existing form of social organization ....
[The Sabbath of the Fireflies: Sorcery, Shamanism and the Cannibal Imaginary in New Guinea]/le Sabbat des Lucioles: Sorcellerie, chamanisme et imaginaire cannibale en Nouvelle-Guinee.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Le Sabbat des Lucioles: Sorcellerie, chamanisme et imaginaire cannibale en Nouvelle-Guinee. [The Sabbath of the Fireflies: Sorcery, Shamanism and the Cannibal Imaginary in New Guinea]. By Pierre Lemonnier. Paris: Editions Stock, 2006. Pp: 410. ...
Ordinary life and ceremonies among a Papua New Guinea Group of Forest-Dwellers/les tambours de l' oubli. La vie ordinaire et ceremonialle d'un peuple forestier de Papouasie. Drumming to forget.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Les tambours de l' oubli. La vie ordinaire et ceremonialle d'un peuple forestier de Papouasie. Drumming to forget. Ordinary life and ceremonies among a Papua New Guinea Group of Forest-Dwellers. By Pascale Bonnemere & Pierre Lemonnier. Nora Scott, Translator. Pirae, ...
The Severed Snake." Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Severed Snake." Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands By Michael W. Scott. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2007 Pp: xxxiii + 379 Price: US$45 In this ...
Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology By Ann L. Appleton. Phillips, Maine: Borneo research Council Monograph No. 9. 2006. Pp. xxiii + 361. Price: US $45. This monograph ...