What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experie...

Building on an incipient tendency to make comparisons between Indonesian and Melanesian cultural ...

A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuse...

A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.

Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Gu...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in...

More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies ...

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of th...

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive gen...

Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and ...

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between 'langu...

How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The c...

Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and ...

In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the...

Explores revenge as a motivation relating to conflict and violence, specifically within Oceania.

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Stra...

The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring...

This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and well...

How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial...

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of ...

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuse...

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain t...

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of ...

Collaborations and Conflicts: A Leader Through Time

How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial...

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Stra...

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive gen...

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integr...

A compelling new book that presents a thoughtful and creative approach to transforming violent di...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology