Recently added articles from Oceania:

New Ireland malanggan art: a quest for meaning.(Author abstract)(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Billings, Dorothy K. ... While New Ireland malanggan carvings have attained fame in the world of tribal arts, and research in anthropology that focuses on the arts has continued, there is still no consensus about their 'meaning.' There is substantial agreement about their social-political-economic function in ...

Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers: metaphor, ideology and practice.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Jones, Alan ... <Pre>But the mind attempts to contrive a principle of order andregularity into certain parts of the mass of signs, and this isthe role of relative motivation. (Ferdinand de Saussure 1974:133) Il y a trop de sens incertains et meme de apparentes contradictions....

What remains? Reconciling repatriation, aboriginal culture, representation and the past.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Lambert-Pennington, Katherine ... Hannah asked, 'What do you think about this whole reburial business, Lynn?' Reluctantly, Lynn replied, 'I think it's good because they are bringing an old Koori home where he belongs.' Hannah rebuked her, 'You should be ashamed of yourself We're not tribal. We've never been tribal here ....

Neither 'New Melanesian History' nor 'New Melanesian Ethnography': recovering emplaced matrilineages in Southeast Solomon Islands.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Scott, Michael W. ... In a series of publications with significant comparative implications for Oceanist anthropology, Edvard Hviding (1993, 1996, 2003) analyzes unilineal representations of social structure in relation to marine and land tenure in Marovo Lagoon (Western Province, Solomon Islands) as instances ...

Family man: the Papua New Guinean children of D. Carleton Gajdusek.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Spark, Ceridwen ... INTRODUCTION The name Carleton Gajdusek is familiar to many scholars and those otherwise interested in Pacific anthropology and history. Dr Gajdusek's association with Papua New Guineans began in earnest when he arrived among the Fore people of PNG's Eastern Highlands in 1957 ....

Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Tabani, Marc ... Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique Edited by Holger Jebens Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2004. Pp: 294 Price: US $25 This collection of papers has been presented at a workshop in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1999. Its main issues neither deal with millenarian movements alone, nor ...

Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Lyon, Wenonah ... Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands By Anna-Leena Siikala and Jukka Siikala Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica. 2005 Pp: 327 Price: not given Anna-Leena and Jukka Siikala, in Return to Culture, combine theoretical perspectives from ...

Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Kowal, Emma ... Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment. By David Scott Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp:279 US $22.95 paper Have you noticed these days that happy endings are few and far between? The latest book from anthropologist and political theorist David ...

Mana Tuturu: Maori treasures and intellectual property rights.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Thornley, Davinia ... Mana Tuturu: Maori treasures and intellectual property rights By Barry Barclay. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 2005. Pp: vii + 268. Price: NZ $42. Barry Barclay (Pakeha and Ngati Apa) is an eminent Aotearoa New Zealand activist and writer, as well as a director of several ...

Creative Spirits. Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Craig, Barry ... Creative Spirits. Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea By Ross Bowden Melbourne: Oceanic Art Pty Ltd. 2006. Pp: x + 202. Price: Aust $70. The information in this richly-illustrated book is based on a period of intensive fieldwork among the Kwoma from October ...

Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Sillitoe, Paul ... Animals the ancestors hunted: an account of the wild mammals of the Kalam area, Papua New Guinea. By Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer (edited by Robin Hide and Andrew Pawley). Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing Australia. 2007. Pp: xlix + 452 Price: $59.95. Readers familiar ...

Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World.(Book review)

Nov 01, 2007; Purdey, Jemma ... Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World By Joel S. Kahn Singapore: ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series in association with Singapore University Press and NIAS Press. 2006. Pp: xxv +228 Price: US$25 As Kahn describes it, the search for the ...