Oceania back issues from March 2003:
Singing about the land among the Biangai.
Mar 01, 2003; ... Political ecology, if nothing else, has proven to be a useful gloss for research that examines a broad range of topics, mostly combining traditional Marxist political economy with ecological concerns. This agenda has encouraged researchers to place local and global economies and ecologies ...
Negotiating materiality: international and local museum practices at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum.
Mar 01, 2003; ... INTRODUCTION The idea of a 'museum' most people are familiar with from reading the growing literature of Museum Studies is of an institutional complex that visually deploys material culture within a wider 'exhibitionary' paradigm. (1) However, this view is all too often not an ...
Tradition and Christianity: controversial funerals and concepts of the person among the Paiwan, Taiwan.
Mar 01, 2003; ... The relationship between tradition and Christianity has been a prominent theme in anthropological writings on Oceania. Since the early 1980s, scholars have begun to address the trend of burgeoning interest in the politics of tradition among Pacific peoples. The use of kastom, 'custom', as ...
Scotty Martin's Jadmi Junba: a Song Series from the Kimberley Region of Northwest Australia (1).
Mar 01, 2003; ... INTRODUCTION Barwick (1990) finds that, in Central Australian performance, whilst text and melody in isolation are relatively fixed, 'there is immense variability in their combination, which is accomplished by what may be crudely characterised as a process of expansion and ...
Bad Colonists: the South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... By Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves Durham: Duke University Press, 1999 Pp. xxiii + 163 Price: US $16.95 This book is a reminder of the cross-disciplinary possibilities of Pacific studies. Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves have edited and annotated the letters of Vernon Lee ...
Encompassing Others: the Magic of Modernity in Melanesia.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... By Edward Lipuma Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 2001 Pp. xvi + 342 Price: US $26.95 This is an ambitious book that offers us a theory of modernity in PNG spefically as it has developed among the Maring. Modernity as understood by Lipuma is not confined to some ...
Kastom or Komuniti: a Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2003; ... By Nigel A. Stephenson Basel: Wepf & Co. 2001. Pp. vi + 460 + 27 photos Price: CHF 80pb In a region along the southern slopes of the Torricelli and Prince Alexander mountains of New Guinea, horticultural peoples such as the Abelam, Urat, Kwanga, Ilahita and Bumbita Arapesh ...